Audra McDonald Quotes
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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The Premier League is a very strong league. Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, and Liverpool all have a high quality. But those who know me also know that I always want to win titles. And I think that Manchester United are a club which can win titles.
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After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
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My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
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My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today.
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I never in a million years thought that my life would unfold the way it has.
