Max von Essen Quotes

My environment is important to me. I'd rather give up other things in my life - I might not take vacations or spend a lot of money on clothes - so that I can live in a home I feel really good about.

Max von Essen

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In America, mixed-race identity tends to invite both curiosity and suspicion, largely because few have found a way to interrogate it without centering whiteness as the scale by which to evaluate blackness.

Jenna Wortham

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Growing up, the only Asian face I saw on air was Connie Chung or extras on M*A*S*H. That was it. You could either be Chinese delivery guy No. 4 or maybe one day read the news.

Su-chin Pak

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I wasn't bullied or anything, but I didn't really fit in.

Ross Butler

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In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.

Michael Musto

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If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.

Juan Felipe Herrera

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The most dramatic moves I have made as an actor have been from stage to screen and from sitcom to drama.

Jasika Nicole

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I'm not ashamed to say I fear something.

DJ Khaled

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Lizz Wright, we call her lovingly 'Amazing Grace.' She has a folk and gospel kind of approach to the music, and she writes beautiful lyrics and songs. She's like this balm that is really full and very rich and deep.

Dianne Reeves

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My father-in-law is so sensitive. Sometimes I think he displays too much love for my children.

Columba Bush

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If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere.

Bobby Darin

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I directed this movie 'Jewtopia' that was based on a show I wrote which played Off Broadway for a number of years. I was trapped in 'Jewtopia'; it wasn't the film I wanted to make.

Bryan Fogel

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Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

William Shakespeare

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