Constance Baker Motley Quotes
Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.
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What's weird is the Hot Boys and the whole New Orleans Cash Money thing had a really big impact on the Bay when that was popping off. I don't all the way understand it. I mean, I know that they were big everywhere and had a lot of commercial success in the mid to late '90s, but they were really, really felt in the Bay Area.
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A lot of times, people are ashamed of feeling weak and being rejected - so it's liberating to be able to sing about those things. And it's amazing when other people don't feel alone because they hear it.
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I don't think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.
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'My clever baton holds your unnatural sorcery in abeyance.'
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I can be a guy's guy and go to a game. But at the end of the night, I can still get dressed up for a date. There are a million different personalities that are part of me.
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Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.
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I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.
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Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.
