Aunjanue Ellis Quotes
Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.
Aunjanue Ellis
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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
Adam Jones
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I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.
Barkhad Abdi
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You have to find out how to become the character.
Kara Hayward
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I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
Tamae Watanabe
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
Yael Naim
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My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.
Keinan Abdi Warsame
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
Yogi Berra
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.
Frances O'Grady
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Saint Mochua was the son of a certain Cronan, of noble race, and spent his youth in fighting. At the age of thirty, he laid aside his arms and burnt a house, with all its contents, which had been given to him by his uncle, saying that a servant of Christ should take nothing from sinners.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
Gary Oldman
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Truth contains a vital principle and will manifest itself.
Charles F. Haanel
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Darling -- I suppose the world would consider us absolutely crazy, but it is wonderful to feel that way, isn't it? Sort of a perpetual springtime in our hearts.
Rachel Carson
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I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.
Jack Scalia
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When I left high school, my dad was directing a film, and I went to work for him as a P.A. There were two wonderful editors, Bud Isaacs and Bernie Balmuth, working on the project, and every chance I had, I would go to the editing room to watch and learn from them.
Christopher Rouse
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The geographical movement of money and commodities as capital is not the same as the movements of products and of precious metals. Capital is, after all, money used in a certain way, and is by no means identical with all money uses.
David Harvey
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Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.
Aunjanue Ellis
