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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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.
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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.
