Angela Bassett Quotes
I'd tell my 20-year-old self, 'Don't be afraid to do it all. Whatever you're interested in, just go for it. Don't wait around for a better time.'
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' to comfort me.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
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Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.
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I've always been very fond of animals.
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As you know, I'm a black girl out of the projects of New York City, raised in a single parent home because my parents divorced very very young... welfare and homeless at four and then again at 16 and just not having the things or the necessary tools that society would say I needed to have in order to be any kind of success in life.
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Coming from West Texas at the time that I did, I didn't know you could be an actor. It didn't seem like something that actually happened.
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We stayed there 24 hours a day. We lived and ate and slept that movie. We were enthusiastic, not just because of the movie, but because we had such a great collaborative team. We had a really good time. It was very much a family.
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Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.
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When it comes to the Yellow Races overruning the world, you may laugh ... [The Chinese] have neither the foresight or endurance to overrun any white country in any way except by intermarriage. One American marine could stand off a great many yellowmen without much effort.
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I'd tell my 20-year-old self, 'Don't be afraid to do it all. Whatever you're interested in, just go for it. Don't wait around for a better time.'
