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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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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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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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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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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I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.
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Whatever you are, whatever gifts you end up getting, you’ll find that time will make those changes less scary as well.
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I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall.
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I have two kids, a career, and a man that takes a lot of my attention and time.
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I just wanted to do a music show, with the whole realm of music from Ella Fitzgerald to rock bands like Cream to Kenny Rogers. We had a lot of country, but we did every kind of music. The Monkees were on, and so was Johnny Cash.
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Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!
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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.'
