Audra McDonald Quotes
One thing that is constantly on my iPod is India Arie - I like her a lot; I listen to her a lot. I think she is just a spectacular artist.
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I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!
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I'm the easiest person to make fun of.
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We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.
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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
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You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.
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I don't think it's good for the league. I really don't because it kind of makes it fake. Guys wearing those clothes don't want to be wearing those clothes.
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America is the greatest, freest, and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.
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One thing that is constantly on my iPod is India Arie - I like her a lot; I listen to her a lot. I think she is just a spectacular artist.
