Curt Flood Quotes
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Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.
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I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
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I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers. It was really that simple. And I think with the proliferation of the Internet and Internet media, it has been a little harder to maintain that gatekeeper position.
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There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.
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When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I liked about myself.
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Sometimes you don't realize how far you've gotten until you look around at the people who are still trailing far behind you.
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The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.
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What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.
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... the one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly - I hate feeling like that.
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Actors spend a great deal of their time making films. And that doesn't mean that they're not educated. But we haven't gone to law school and we're not experts on policy. We're just people with a platform and an opinion. But that should never be enough, in my opinion, to be political.
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Honestly, what planet do these people live on? And why isn't it farther away?
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I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.
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A true apology is more than just aknowledgment of a mistake. It is recognition that something you have said or done has damaged a relationship and that you care enough about the relationship to want it repaired and restored.
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Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.
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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
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When people show you who they are, believe them. I carry that with me a lot. It has served me well.
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A well-paid slave is nonetheless a slave.
