Lorraine Bracco Quotes
You know, growing up, I lived in a neighborhood in Long Island where there was basically one black family. And I remember hearing all the parents and the kids in the neighborhood say racist things about this family.
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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
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I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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I'd seen 'Punky Brewster,' I'd seen 'Webster,' I saw 'Annie,' and it was time to either be an orphan or an actress.
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Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.
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We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
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If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.
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Men frequently think that the evils in the world are more numerous than the good things; many sayings and songs of the nations dwell on this idea. ...Not only common people make this mistake, but even many who think they are wise.
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No more. A puff of writing long gone. Is this the child pulling on the flying cloth of its mother's last worn dress?
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Kids aren't dumb - they might not get something, but they're going to figure it out.
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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
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You know, growing up, I lived in a neighborhood in Long Island where there was basically one black family. And I remember hearing all the parents and the kids in the neighborhood say racist things about this family.
