Cicely Tyson Quotes
We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?
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How lucky am I?
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
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In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.
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I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.
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Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
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I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
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Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
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I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
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Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They're so iconic, and we want to watch them over and over again.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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I kind of liked the idea of filming musicians. I could like a musician and know, at the same time, maybe nobody else maybe liked them much or appreciated them.
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If you are a 5-year-old, you just go ahead and try something. You don't think about it. You are just a little kid.
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I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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To have an opinion about somebody you've never met before is pretty superficial.
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I'm thankful to my family, friends, and fans for all of their support.
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I do think 'Dr. Ken,' at its heart, is about a great doctor who's a bit burned out. But even when I was a burned-out doctor, I was still happy and had a life outside of work.
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One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
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It was the consideration of the multitude of souls which fall into the depths of Hell, because it is of faith that all those who die in mortal sin are condemned forever and ever. According to statistics, approximately 80,000 persons die every day. How many of these will die in mortal sin, and how many will be condemned, for, as their lives have been, so also will their end be.
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We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?
