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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When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.
Patti Smith
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The murmuring poor, who will not fast in peace.
George Crabbe
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A dash derives from "to dash," to shatter, strike violently, to throw suddenly or violently, hence to throw carelessly in or on, hence to write carelessly or suddenly, to add or insert suddenly or carelessly to or in the page. "To dash" comes from Middle English daschen, itself probably from Scandinavian-compare Danish daske, to beat, to strike. Ultimately the word is-rather obviously-echoic.
Eric Partridge
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The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.
Adam Cohen
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It's a knee, for one. I'm a running back, two. You have to be smart, three.
Cedric Benson
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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
