Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
I get very upset with all of the crowd seekers today, and people out there trying to get on TV. It ain't about you. It's about trying to make the world more just for everybody.
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People take things so seriously.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.
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There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.
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You're going to a bunch of auditions, and most of the time you're just getting denied, but just staying in there and keeping my head and being determined helped. Growing is what's challenging; you have to constantly practice your craft.
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Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
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KIPP schools would be just a shining example of schools where students aren't just given homework and taught imaginative ways, but they're really brought into a culture of education.
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I did a show with Tori Kelly, and it was really cool that I got to meet her. She has always been a huge inspiration of mine, and I'm obsessed with her voice, so it was great to get to talk to her about the industry. The best advice she gave me was to just be myself.
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I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
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We must have the courage to confront dreadful views even in the people we love the most. But that's difficult to do when we cast large segments of our fellow citizens into a basket to be condemned and disparaged, judging them even as we ignore that many of their deplorable traits exist in us, too.
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Jimmy Grants is my first stop every time I go home to Australia. They make the best souvlakis you have ever tasted.
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I get very upset with all of the crowd seekers today, and people out there trying to get on TV. It ain't about you. It's about trying to make the world more just for everybody.
