Dionne Warwick Quotes
The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.
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I kinda wanted to play receiver more.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you're not called to do it, you're dividing the audience you're trying to reach.
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We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.
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Accepting people as they are has the miraculous effect of helping them improve. Acceptance doesn't prohibit growth; rather, it fosters it.
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We're trying to tell a very full story of 'Nashville' and these characters in Nashville, and I'm really hopeful that we're going to be able to do something as innovative as 'American Horror Story' and 'Friday Night Lights.' And I think so far, we're on the right path for that.
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The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.
