Edwin Markham Quotes
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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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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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, you put things to the side, and I'm able to see her, and she's able to see me. We love each other. The love has grown.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
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You spend five months filming in outer space and saving the world, and suddenly that kind of family unit and story disappears, and you come crashing back down to Earth, and you have to do your own washing... and most actors are insecure that the last job they did will be their last job ever.
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The problem we have in the WTA circuit is that the girls do not have a good relationship because we play against each other, and it's a sport.
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Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed in school if their lives out of school are in total chaos.
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I had never attended high school, but I was fairly well read.
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I fear the vermin that shall undermine Senate and citadel and school and shrine.
