Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
Gary Zukav -
The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
Kate Klise -
Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
Pat Summitt -
One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
Ed Belfour -
Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
Abbas Kiarostami -
Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.
Damien Hirst
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
Kate Clinton -
I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
Kat Graham -
I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
Taya Kyle -
Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions.
Harry Browne -
An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
Cameron Mackintosh -
The European Union will never see America, or an American president, as a risk.
Federica Mogherini
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
Karen Gillan -
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen -
A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
Carl von Clausewitz -
The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
Ike Skelton -
I was pregnant, and, like, 'Being a mom's going to be easy!' And now I'm like, 'Great.'
Laura Benanti -
I like to laugh and make people have fun.
R. Kelly
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I love the experience the theater creates for a community of people.
David Binder -
We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.
Xavier Dolan -
I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.
Kurt Russell -
I've obviously used fans - I wouldn't say all my life, because we couldn't afford them when I was young, but from my 20s and onwards we've had to use fans. And I've always loathed them. Everything about them. The way you adjust them, getting them at the angle you want. Carrying them. Cleaning them. The danger of putting your finger in them.
James Dyson -
I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. So you just close your eyes and think back to when you were as young as you can remember and had the least barriers to your creativity.
Kanye West -
You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.
Anna Deavere Smith