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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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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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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People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.
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It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.
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Film is a window to the real world but a lie that makes you believe the unbelievable.
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This industry's hard. The world is hard. Being young and black is tough.
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You want people - I want people to relate to me as a character. I want them to go, 'That could have been me,' or, 'I know someone like that.'
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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.
