Edwin Markham Quotes
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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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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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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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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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Surprisingly, I think if you're known on the Internet, you're probably an introvert.
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I often find myself going back to Darwin's saying about the duration of a man's friendships being one of the best measures of his worth.
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I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance I could see through him and he could see through me, and he knew that I knew that he knew. Look, love, I've been bullied all my life by bigger experts than Larry Olivier, I can assure you, and he's just got to get in line.
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I could never fear a God who kept a hell prison-house. No, not though he flung me there because I refused. There is a power stronger than such a one; and it is possible to walk unscathed even in the burning furnace.
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When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder.
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I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
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I fear the vermin that shall undermine Senate and citadel and school and shrine.
