Khandi Alexander Quotes
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In 2012, I was over the moon to be there, especially as it was our home Olympics. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I just wanted to take everything in.
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What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.
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I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.
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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.
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We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic.
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I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible.
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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
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When it comes to lingerie, there are no rules. I feel the sexiest when I'm myself, no hair, no makeup.
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When I'm about to go on stage, and I look out and just see the fans filled out in the arena, all pumped up and screaming - that gives me butterflies! I just love that feeling, and I'm like, 'Oh my gosh, it's gonna be a great show!'
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Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
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If there's a clear genocide somewhere, don't we really want to positively impact that kind of a situation? Isn't that what we're all about? Isn't that what we've always been about?
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The Republican agenda is, and always has been, to repeal Roe v. Wade, and at the very least, erode it to the greatest extent possible.
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I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!
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Kierkegaard said that the only way we can be released from the enchantment, the siren song of the myths, is to play the music through backwards. To break the spell of the ego I must recover my personal and political history, I must demythologize the private, family, and public myths that have informed me.
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This child, who is grasping the stone, facing the tank, is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero becomes a martyr? We are proud of them.
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You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.
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Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World.'
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My style is ghetto chic. I love tacky jewelry, mega heels, high-waisted shorts, catsuits.
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If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.
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It feels bad to play a bad guy. I did George W. Bush for years, and I hated him. But you have to give full voice to the villains. You have to have really convincing villains, or it's not worth anything as drama or comedy.
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I have always loved Scott Foley.
