Angela Rye Quotes
I am so proud to be black. I am, nevertheless, tired of the oppression. We need to develop and support a cohesive black agenda. We need to do what leaders have suggested since slavery. We need to recognize that while we are not monolithic, there is power in embracing a common agenda.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
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We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.
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They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.
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I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.
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I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.
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Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.
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I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.
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Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.
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The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.
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Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.
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If you're doing something you love, an hour feels like five minutes. If you're doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit, five minutes feels like an hour.
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I am so proud to be black. I am, nevertheless, tired of the oppression. We need to develop and support a cohesive black agenda. We need to do what leaders have suggested since slavery. We need to recognize that while we are not monolithic, there is power in embracing a common agenda.
