Audra McDonald Quotes
When I first was exposed to 'Porgy and Bess' many, many years ago, I was blown away by it - loved the music, overwhelmed by the production at the Met that I saw, and thought I want to play Bess someday. But I also knew they were stereotypes that were considered racist.
Quotes to Explore
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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Think and grow rich.
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The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.
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A novel is not a rant.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I've seen women afraid to stretch for things. They avoid opportunities they don't feel qualified for yet. Instead, they should grab risky opportunities that will force them to grow on the job and learn to do it.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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No man may make another free.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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I've hurt people unnecessarily when it was about my own insecurities. But you have to make those mistakes to become a better person.
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Free-enterprise capitalism is the most powerful system for social cooperation and human progress ever conceived. It is one of the most compelling ideas we humans have ever had. But we can aspire to something even greater.
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Because I really love tax, tax topics actually feature quite a lot in my fiction of various lengths. I once wrote a science fiction short story centered around the idea of an alien tax code, and the idea that you can understand a society by parsing its tax code.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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When I first was exposed to 'Porgy and Bess' many, many years ago, I was blown away by it - loved the music, overwhelmed by the production at the Met that I saw, and thought I want to play Bess someday. But I also knew they were stereotypes that were considered racist.
