Audra McDonald Quotes
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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
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When Chipotle asked me to take part in the Cultivating Thought program both as an author and an essay contest judge, I was excited by the idea of sharing my story through this unique channel and helping young, inspiring writers do the same.
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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.
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I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.
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My dreams are all follies.
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I don't like the road. I love being on the track. I like being indoors and the fact I'm not battling past 200 other riders.
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When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.
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Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.
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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
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I played in football games where you walk off the field and the scoreboard didn't end up the way you wanted. But you knew that you really did give it all. And the other team was too strong.
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I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure.
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I think you need to do something new to keep reinventing yourself.
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Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.
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When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.
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I've seen my friends take someone back after they've cheated because they fit perfectly.
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In the states we all have this idea, everyone who wants to be the next best singer, next best dancer. Those same wants and desires are in India, too.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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Its like Dr. Doolittle in this fucking house here.
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My name is Bono and I am a rock star.
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Does the difficulty in ensuring each and every employee of such companies is not tied to insurgent groups and not potentially providing useful targeting information to these groups argue against continuing to employ such firms unless there is no alternative?
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Meditation is a time to focus, train the mind, and bring it to stillness. It is not a time to rest and relax.
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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
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I don't see myself as a perfectionist.
