Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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V-necks are great because you can get a little fat and you still look kind of good - and I like to get fat sometimes, so it's nice. I like to fluctuate between the world of skinny and fat, so V-necks suit me well.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
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When I see other working actresses that are brown, I get so excited. I get so excited when I see Zoe Kravitz, Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson, Ava Duvernay, and all these beautiful women working.
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My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.
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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
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I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.
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Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.
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All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
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Fear's what puts dreams to sleep.
