Audra McDonald Quotes
I've been so lucky, with incredible mentors along the way, that now I need to be that for someone else.
Quotes to Explore
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.
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I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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I did not enter the industry to create a certain image. People happened to see me as the friend/sister/daughter next door. I like that association very much. It's close to what I am in real life. As for films, I just focus on the job.
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I write all the time, even if it means recording in the hotel room. I write on the plane, anywhere, anytime I'm inspired or have ideas.
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Too often, I've seen instances where we have an idea of what we want to be, where we want to go, and with whom - before life steps in the way, throws something at us that is beyond our control, and changes everything.
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I think America is on the right track.
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You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason he is to be loved.
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p. 63
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All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.
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What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: 'Paint me just as I am.' Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.
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I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
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There are three successive states of morality answering to the three principal stages of human life; the personal, the domestic, and the social stage.
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I … thought about societies where exceptional fortunes are built up in industries with very little connection to out sincere and significant needs, industries where it is difficult to escape from the disparity between a seriousness of means and a triviality of ends.
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I fought fires in the summer, and then I went back and did it again when I went to graduate school.
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People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.
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Some guy in Germany has my face tattooed on the back of his calf. That was wild. It was a decent tattoo job, but that's kind of weird for me.
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Genuine leadership is inherently moral. So the values chosen matter tremendously, and they must be values aligned with society (including the most universal statement of human values in history, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as clear values of sustainability evidenced in global declarations like the Stockholm and Rio Declarations.
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I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline.
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You come across quite ordinary, nondescript people in daily life, and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage, too.
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I've been so lucky, with incredible mentors along the way, that now I need to be that for someone else.
