Audra McDonald Quotes
'Go Back Home' encompasses not only actual geographic location but also, for me, back home in the worlds of music and theatre, and back home in terms of making albums again. There are lots of meanings to that.
Quotes to Explore
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There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.
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I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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Think and grow rich.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
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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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My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
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The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
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The Palestinians must be brought to an understanding that Jerusalem will always remain under Israeli sovereignty and that there is no point for them in opening negotiations about Jerusalem.
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I was about 14 when I started with a theater group; it was like a stage group on the weekends alongside school. And it was run by a group of guys who'd been to drama school themselves in London. So they introduced us to techniques that they'd learn about, and they kind of informed us about improvisation and screenwriting and all of that stuff.
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I started out doing something little. I went to Africa to spend five weeks putting roofs on a building. I seen the small child that stepped on a land mine. Three months later, I'm back helping pull the land mines out. Little things just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
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We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.
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'Go Back Home' encompasses not only actual geographic location but also, for me, back home in the worlds of music and theatre, and back home in terms of making albums again. There are lots of meanings to that.
