Audra McDonald Quotes
Some days, I don't recognise my country, and other days, I see people being vocal and passionate, and I think, 'There's my country.'
Audra McDonald
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
Karin Slaughter
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I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.
Taylor Swift
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
Wayne Rooney
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
Salman Rushdie
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I don't want to get too philosophical, but in a sense, you're given this gift, this sort of creative force in you, and I think everyone has it, and it's completely unique to you. And you as a person have a little bit of a responsibility as its shepherd if you choose to incorporate that into your life.
Ze Frank
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
Wadah Khanfar
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
Hansika Motwani
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
Barbra Streisand
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
Gao Xingjian
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
Ralph Lauren
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
Mal Peet
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It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like Sophocles' Oedipus, who, seeking enlightenment concerning his terrible fate, pursues his indefatigable inquiry even though he divines that appalling horror awaits him in the answer. But most of us carry with us the Jocasta in our hearts, who begs Oedipus, for God's sake, not to inquire further.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
Billy Joel
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I've realized that no problem is as hopeless as it first may seem, I've learned how to live day to day and show others how to do the same, and most of all, I've learned how to just be.
Jessie Pavelka
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I want to change the perception about Latinos worldwide. I think people don't know yet how cool we are.
J Balvin
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Some days, I don't recognise my country, and other days, I see people being vocal and passionate, and I think, 'There's my country.'
Audra McDonald
