Anna Freud Quotes
Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating force. That it has become what it has become is shocking to me. I just wanted to be able to take care of my kids.
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China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
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I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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Going vegetarian - and then vegan - has calmed me down, and it has also made me physically and emotionally strong. I do crave meat once in a while, but I find that spiritually, non-vegetarian food works against my emotional health.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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After my accident, the stuff that mattered was stuff that made a difference in the world, not the stuff that made money.
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My profession has helped me to grow up.
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Black Power was really a major challenge to the social privileges and structures of the kind of privilege that I had grown up with. That whole belief... that you will only be able to advance if you are perfectly behaved, if you present yourself as what white people would consider an ideal of whiteness... all of that just began to burst open.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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There are those who profess to support law enforcement but who have attempted to undermine the efforts of hard-working officers who make difficult decisions.
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Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.
