Anna Diop Quotes
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.
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When it gets down to it you just have to act.
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In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You may have a free-standing bookshelf of your favorite books if that's all you have room for.
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I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.
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An ice-fishing shanty is basically a tin outhouse on a frozen lake, except that in an outhouse, the hole has a purpose. In ice fishing, the hole is what you stare at for hours, hoping that at some point you'll break the monotony by falling in.
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You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.
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You're either humble or you're not. If you were a jerk before the fame, you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight. Whoever you are really comes through.
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Un homme se définit aussi bien par ses comédies que par ses élans sincères.1
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Last night I was east with them And west within Trying to be for you what you wanna see.
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Dear Senator Leahy, thank you for your recent letter asking my views on the proposed flag protection amendment. I love our flag, our Constitution and our country with a love that has no bounds. I defended all three for 35 years as a soldier and was willing to give my life in their defense.
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There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
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Better to use force when you should rather than when you must.
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I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.
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I mostly listen to things that are so different because there's something so intriguing about trying to understand where someone is coming from.
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When you go into a situation, and you're honest and straight-up about something, you put all your cards on the table.
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Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. Happy were we all born philosophers; all born with a talent of thus dissipating our own cares by spreading them upon all mankind.
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There's nothing like being shot on camera.
