Andra Day Quotes
I pray, read the word, and then creative stuff happens here. Problem-solving and all of that comes into that space. So 'Da Box' actually represents my sanctuary and that time. I might look trapped in a box, but I'm actually more free in that box than anyone on the outside looking in or in any other space in my life.
Quotes to Explore
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
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They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.
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I don't think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim ban.
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Being a teenager is hard.
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I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.
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'Doctor Who' is where my love of science fiction and fantasy started. I was introduced to it when I was 8, and I'm still an avid viewer.
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You can't be against bullying without actually doing something about it.
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One of my favorite movies of all time is 'Bugsy Malone.'
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Performing for the Dalai Lama - those are words I never imagined coming out of my mouth.
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One kindness can change a life.
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Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.
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The dying crimson of the West That faintly tinged his haggard cheek, Fell on her as she stood, and shed A glory round the patient head.
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Laughter is binary: It either happens or it doesn't. As each joke arrives in the course of a film, the cavernous space of the theater is either filled with joy and laughter or with the quiet of cringing embarrassment. Every time you step to the plate to make a joke, you're going to experience one or the other.
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I pray, read the word, and then creative stuff happens here. Problem-solving and all of that comes into that space. So 'Da Box' actually represents my sanctuary and that time. I might look trapped in a box, but I'm actually more free in that box than anyone on the outside looking in or in any other space in my life.
