Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
Yogi Berra -
I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
Mahesh Babu -
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
Otto von Bismarck -
It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
Nathan Lane -
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
Walt Whitman -
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Victor Hugo
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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.
Damien Rice -
Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
Malcolm Boyd -
I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
Ram Charan -
No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
Nathan Fillion -
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Walt Whitman -
Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
Ted Deutch
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I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.
Victoria Jackson -
Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
Garry Shandling -
A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
Karl Kraus -
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
Yo-Yo Ma -
We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
Gary Allan -
I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
Laura Dern
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When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.
Rabih Alameddine -
My family have been wool merchants since the 19th century. My first job, aged 18, was buying fabric from my father to produce and sell ties. But I was also at university in Milan.
Pier Luigi Loro Piana -
I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe that we're going to be all right. I've got to just play basketball.
Allen Iverson -
I dont think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didnt achieve that much even at that time. You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.
Alan Cranston -
Not that many people, even contemporary writers, write about right now.
Anna Deavere Smith