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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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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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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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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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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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.
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I know that a lot of our troops like country music. I would love to do anything I could to just help them out.
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Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.
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I cannot believe that in all the years that there have been female stand-ups, there has never been a show just for them.
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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.
