Audra McDonald Quotes
When you become a parent, it blows you open in ways that you never thought possible in terms of a level of love that I know I never thought I could possibly have.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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I did 'Shameless' on Showtime, and I felt like I really tried to go super-method with that, and it would just make my days really hard to get in and out of character.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
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My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.
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I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.'
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Being a bad guy is fun for me.
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There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.
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OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.
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All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.
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Cobain the writer is funny and self-aware and snotty with a knack for off-the-cuff profundity. Remarking to a friend that his band will be called 'Nirvana,' he scribbles next to it the words 'Oooh eerie mystical doom.'
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In real football, I wouldn't want Terrell Owens anywhere near my team. But you're nuts if you don't take him in fantasy.
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I just want to learn even more about my culture and about the Algonquin culture because I fell in love with Pocahontas and the Algonquin tribe.
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'Dead Aid' is about the inefficacy and the limitations of large-scale aid programs in creating economic growth and reducing poverty in Africa.
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You will not be able to meet the Millennium Development goals in health without e-health, in education without e-education, and government services will not be able to be provided without e-government services.
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There are no requirements when you're using a particular genre. It's not like the genre is your boss and you have to do what it says. You can make use of the genre any way you want to, as long as you can make it work.
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When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound.
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Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women don't vote.
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We have to get back to a government where leaders are willing to talk across party lines and do not have absolute politics as the goal.
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Sometimes its not the dark that we are afraid of, but the absence of light.
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When you become a parent, it blows you open in ways that you never thought possible in terms of a level of love that I know I never thought I could possibly have.
