Andre Holland Quotes
Frankly, I think that's something that black people in America have often done - finding ways under very, very difficult circumstances to be subversive, but also to push things forward. And I think that applies to music. I think it applies to dance. I think it applies to a number of things.
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We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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I do think that you're starting to see young people pay attention to some longterm issues that they feel Washington has neglected.
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We have no chance to comprehend what goes on there - it's so dramatic, and people are so poor. We all felt bad about being there. Filming in India felt like we were going to borrow something knowing that we were never going to give it back.
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BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.
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After you ride a roller coaster that's been going up for a year and a half, and you reach the pinnacle and then dive straight down with no gradual decline, it's a little disorienting. I didn't know how to take losing.
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People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.
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Frankly, I think that's something that black people in America have often done - finding ways under very, very difficult circumstances to be subversive, but also to push things forward. And I think that applies to music. I think it applies to dance. I think it applies to a number of things.
