Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
Ja Rule -
This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
Laura Amy Schlitz -
You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
Ram Charan -
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
Walter Benjamin
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
Hailey Gates -
I think that Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pena and Valentina Shevchenko... they've showed how much this level has gone up in female fighting in a very short period of time.
Daniel Cormier -
Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
Laila Ali -
When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
Ted Sarandos -
I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
L.A. Reid -
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Victor Hugo
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Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
Karrie Webb -
I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.
Narendra Modi -
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
Madame de Stael -
Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
Barbara Rosenblat -
I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.
Irwin Winkler -
And for whatever reason I've loved the news since I can remember. I loved it when I was in elementary school.
Dan Rather
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'Liberace's a great film. It's a great piece of material. I have a great script and it's a great score.
Jerry Weintraub -
Sound peculiarly appeals to memory.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon -
This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to render a verbal creation (as opposed to a didactic statement) from one language to another, he is confronted with two equally unsatisfactory choices. He may, according to his talents, elaborate a similar, but never identical creation, or he may describe that creation as completely as possible in his own language.
Gaston Bachelard -
Film is probably the medium best suited to reach the most people - the visual, the aural, the limbic, the intellectual: it captures all these parts of our mind and soul. No other art form comes close.
Peter Landesman -
I think art must be the place where you are protected from the logic of the outside world.
Camille Henrot -
I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
Anna Deavere Smith