Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
Lady Gaga -
I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.
Randi Weingarten -
Sports should not become routine. It should be about passion.
Kapil Dev -
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
Barack Obama
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I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
Ice Cube -
I've been the lull, and I've been the storm and also somewhere in between. But that's OK. I love the limelight after all.
Karan Johar -
Looking back at my career, I wish I knew then what I know now... that gender bias is built into the system, and it's unconscious in many ways. I wish I had the maturity and courage to have pushed back more. I was always trying to be a 'good girl' and play by the rules.
Valerie Plame -
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And many movie fans I've spoken to would rather see an actor in a costume than CG.
Warwick Davis -
I can't run my career based on someone else's ideology.
Yami Gautam -
I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a painter.' And sometimes that joke felt like, 'Oh that's a good idea.' But it was only, like, a daydream for a moment to, like, escape.
Kate Micucci
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I think that's what is so cool about performing. When there is a show to do, you get up there and do it.
Kate Micucci -
I'm not really a model.
Gaspard Ulliel -
The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.
Laura Linney -
One of the joys of teaching with the anthology is to watch the excitement grow as students, who may think the past dull and irrelevant, find how fresh and new and powerful are the kinds of writings that are hundreds of years old.
M. H. Abrams -
Despite being subjected to killing, arrest, and oppression, Morsy's supporters have held fast to the democratic process and prevented Egypt from descending into civil war.
Tawakkol Karman -
No, it doesn't affect my morale. Because life must go on. I would pick up a paper or a derogatory article and stick it in my bathroom or my desk and see it every morning. I look at it as something that has to be overcome- (On his reaction to the abuse and ridicule in the Press).
Amitabh Bachchan
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Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.
Mother Teresa -
It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.
Max Weber -
They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March.
William John Wills -
I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
William Faulkner -
I write plays about big, intense subjects.
Anna Deavere Smith