Anton Chekhov Quotes
Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one.
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Conformity is dangerous.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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Even though I lost my dad in just a tragic, sudden way, there are so many more stories that are so much worse.
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As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.
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Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the Grey is a bit more humane.
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I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.
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All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
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Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.
