Yance Ford Quotes
I would hate for people to think that 'Strong Island' is just about a family's grief. It is about a family's grief, yes, but it is also an interrogation of our criminal justice system.

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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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'Star Wars' was, I mean, it was the first time I remember seeing three movies that all kind of went together. It was just an amazing final understanding of what a trilogy was.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.
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I was taken to court for trying to travel on a child ticket to Glastonbury '97. I was, and still am, 6 ft. 5.
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If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.
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Never give up on a good thing, never give up, never give up!
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I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.
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To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.
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I would hate for people to think that 'Strong Island' is just about a family's grief. It is about a family's grief, yes, but it is also an interrogation of our criminal justice system.