Belinda Johnson Quotes
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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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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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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Humor is a wonderful way to deal with our suffering because if we can laugh at our troubles, we can feel better. Thich Nhat Hanh is a special man who has helped millions with their suffering with incredible technique. But he doesn't know real suffering, because he has not dated as much as I have.
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The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
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I actually think I need 'Homeland' rehab. And that Ray Donovan. I think I've watched every episode more than once. Liev Schreiber, Jeffrey Wright and Jon Voight have made me fall in love with acting again.
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Both parents’ rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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I fell so hard for the theater. I knew it was a place where you can sort out your life.
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It's important for anyone working at a hyper growth company such as Airbnb to embrace learning and be open in order to keep pace with the changing environment.
