Annalena McAfee Quotes
One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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The important thing to remember is war does not progress linearly. The future course of events is going to be very difficult to predict with a high degree of precision.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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I don't talk about how old I am because sometimes it can affect parts that you get in Hollywood. I don't believe that it's a necessary element. I feel that I'm a character, and I'm an actor. People focusing on my age instead of the role I'm playing can be a hindrance.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Everything in my life - family, friends, even my fiance - are all second to soccer. And I've won every tournament where I haven't had anyone there. It just seems to work for me. I don't think I'm going to change that.
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Some people may get in to the building without the proper passes and things, but I think that's the price you pay for being an open place for people to come.
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Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.
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The Bruce I knew back then was an easygoing, down-to-earth, casual, romantic, good and loving man. I was extremely happy to have found such a remarkable partner with whom to share my life.
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I think that the world is very complex. I think that the movie is a good way to ask questions. To give answers, you would write a lot of books.
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One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
