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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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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For the most part, I hang out in my back yard with my dog, but there's no paparazzi trying to check that out.
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If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.
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Publishers like their authors to take advantage of publicity opportunities.
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Don’t ever give up. Don’t see the obstacles, just the way around them. For me, of course it looked improbable, but not impossible. So as long as there was a way, I would not be discouraged.
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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.
