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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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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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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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 fought fires in the summer, and then I went back and did it again when I went to graduate school.
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Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
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I did commercial fishing in Alaska in college. I was the only girl on a fishing boat. It definitely tested so many aspects of my personality.
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I was at a bar nursing a beer. My nipple was getting quite soggy.
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I started doing home brew stuff with my dad when I was younger.
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Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
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Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a video out there that's getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren't keeping an open mind.
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It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.
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Songwriting ability is a gift. After a while, you come to realize, "I've really been blessed. I can write these things and it makes me happy, and it makes millions of people happy." It's an obligation, it's bigger than you. It's the only true magic I know. It's not pulling a rabbit out of a hat; it's real. It's your soul floating out to theirs.
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The fans here, they've been unbelievable. You've got to play hard for them.
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I'm always in bed by 11 or 12 and people laugh all the time - they want me to hang out until two in the morning, but n-n-no, I need my nine hours.
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Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.
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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.
