Halle Berry Quotes
I've always liked to go down a different path. Being a woman of color, I never followed a cookie cutter way.
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.
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I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
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I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.
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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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I am frustrated and outraged by the slow nature of change at the VA.
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The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession. I feel watched 90% of the time, but that is something I drew with the cards that I drew.
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I want to challenge myself in new mediums; I want to leave myself open to different things.
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I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings.
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I've always liked to go down a different path. Being a woman of color, I never followed a cookie cutter way.
