Angela Bassett Quotes
I'm thinking about directing, but I know it's a lot of work and I appreciate what directors do and I would like to be good at it. The opportunity has presented itself four to five times, and I usually said no because of the script.
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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I would love to do some theater.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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I don't do meetings.
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Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!
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I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.
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Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.
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I grew up in London under Thatcher and that really was disgusting. A feeding frenzy.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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It's hard to find good teamwork in practice, and I have never thought that we, as a party, were any better at working as a team than the Tories, despite our core values.
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I'm thinking about directing, but I know it's a lot of work and I appreciate what directors do and I would like to be good at it. The opportunity has presented itself four to five times, and I usually said no because of the script.
