Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.
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When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.
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I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
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I still have a lot to do, a lot to improve.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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People would tell us, 'I love your company, but I want to go to Chicago or Boston or New York.'
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I have one rule when adapting any text: nothing gets added; all the words are the original author's own. But in the ordering and recreation of the story, I can do as I please, and to me, the heart and the point of 'Dracula' is appetite.
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I didn't know how capable I was until the people around me in acting school would say I was good.
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Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
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My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes.
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Women need each other. Be there for each other, and don't feel threatened.
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If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
