Marilyn Nelson Quotes
Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.
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I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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I am very concerned about nutrition and always try to be careful about what I eat.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.
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Moisturizing every night is important. When you're 50 or 60, it's going to show if you don't take care of it. You have to prepare when you're young, so you still have that healthy, glowing skin when you're 60 or 70.
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It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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I was a horrible athlete.
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
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I believe in my music.
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Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.
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I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.
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I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.
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I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.
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It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.
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Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.
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We started off as a garage band who played a lot of rock 'n' roll.
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Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.
