Angela Bassett Quotes
I like the nice guys. I like when they show the stories, the human element behind it all.
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My favorite makeup look was for my 'Eyes Wide Open' video done by Torsten Witte. It was so dramatic and definitely captured the magic of the video.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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Love is more than one thing.
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Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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I am just an actor, but there are these other people who are really selfless. I come from a long line of nurses in my family, and they really do a thankless job.
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I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
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I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture.
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I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.
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I'm proud to have played characters who've inspired people to live out loud, and I'm lucky to have reached an audience that's been incredibly enthusiastic and supportive.
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
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Oils have the most wonderful effect on the complexion due to their high affinity with the skin.
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Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
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I want to buy up a gang of properties in my neighborhood and give people the chance to live in new buildings. We should make our areas nice.
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Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space.
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Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
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I like the nice guys. I like when they show the stories, the human element behind it all.
