James A. Baldwin Quotes
There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
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For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
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I wouldn't ever pose naked... I'm fine to do bikinis and certainly lingerie if I feel it's done tastefully... cute like Victoria's Secret, but nothing like raunchy or overly sexual.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering.
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Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of good.
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I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.
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Several years ago, I was asked by a songwriter's association to go to Nashville - I think it involved some kind of award - and be part of the showcase. It was myself and Stevie Winwood and Michael McDonald and then some country people that I didn't know. The whole community was just so welcoming to me.
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Two great virtues . . . give a man power with the heavens - integrity and purity of character. Let a man possess these, let his heart be true and unflinching, let his life be pure, and, if we add to these humility, he is protected against a multitude of weaknesses and can resist a host of temptations. We all have our weaknesses; God has permitted them that we might be taught humility in ourselves and charity towards others.
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
