Audra McDonald Quotes
Without theater, I don't think I would have thought I was a smart person or excelled at anything.
Audra McDonald
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Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
Garry Hynes
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As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
Randy Wayne
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
Naomi Wolf
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Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes from ordinary people - deliberately, in the case of bulk records collection, and 'incidentally,' when the content of American phone calls and e-mails are swept into NSA systems along with foreign targets.
Barton Gellman
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It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
Taslima Nasrin
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
Tcheky Karyo
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As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?
Forest Whitaker
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
Nancy Reagan
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The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.
Harold Feinstein
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Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.
Rand Paul
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Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
N. K. Jemisin
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The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
Vince Cable
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Certainly, Continental has taken advantage of pipe and sponsored pipeline projects where we could. As a historic shipper, we have put a lot of oil on pipe. We have over half of our oil on pipe coming out of the Bakken. We feel good about that.
Harold Hamm
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Human nature has its fatal weaknesses, but 'love' means embracing the whole of human nature, the bad within the good, the benign within the malicious, the beautiful within the tragic. 'Love' is the experience of this whole, its unfinished parts, including those of one's own in relation to those of the other.
Qiu Miaojin
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I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer's block.
Frank Ocean
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This was the hour she loved; this lonely hour when the others were distant in sleep and she was alone in the house; when she could cry if she wanted to, or curse, or sit at her work and think or remember and no longer be anything but herself. There is a latitude to late night, when one's thoughts dare to travel, and the emotions are free, no longer frightened by confinement.
Elizabeth Enright
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Especially on television, it's not so much a patriarchy; it always seems that there's a smart, strong woman calling the shots, and her doofus husband. In the sitcom world, it's almost a cliche that the women have the common sense, going back to 'The Honeymooners.'
Jake Weber
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Without theater, I don't think I would have thought I was a smart person or excelled at anything.
Audra McDonald
