Lionel Sosa Quotes
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, you put things to the side, and I'm able to see her, and she's able to see me. We love each other. The love has grown.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.
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If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
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Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.
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As an actor, you have times that are bustling, and then you have the quieter, slower times. I definitely had some of those.
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When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do my modern, and I couldn't do it. They asked me if I had a song prepared, and I said 'No,' so I sang 'Happy Birthday.' And I did a reasonable improvisation, a reasonable one, nothing special at all. I don't know how I got in, but I did.
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…death came so easily, hardly announced, without apparent cause, often greeted with smiles.
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I've found that entrepreneurship only gets harder every year, and as your team gets bigger, the stakes get higher.
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I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid.
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If college expectations are not taught at home, teach them in school.
