Audra McDonald Quotes
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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It's wild, how many places of conflict that have fashion weeks. It's becoming some sort of marker for these countries that says, 'We are in conversation with the rest of the world.'
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Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.
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Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.
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Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.
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TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.
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I think you can overthink dealing with fame. To an extent, you've got to put yourself out there, but I feel like your work should really speak for itself, and I don't feel the need to go and make everyone like me because, to be honest, I'm not looking to be friends with the world. I'd much rather people watch the things that I'm in.
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I climb mountains.
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I don't want to be a pretty boy.
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Increasingly, the work I'm doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I'm trying to explore how I feel about something through photography.
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I grew up about 30 minutes north of Boston in a town that was a virtual melting pot - I was exposed to all different backgrounds, cultures, and religions, fueling my personal interests in global issues.
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When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.
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The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.
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The goal is not to add years to your life, but to add life to your years
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I'm very close to my parents and my grandma.
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Parenthood is an adventure.
