Angela Robinson Quotes

I hope we can see African American characters as the diva, as the villain, and also as the praying mother. We are all of those things. We tended to only be the best friend or the neighbor in everybody's sitcom.

Angela Robinson

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Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.

Jeremy Jackson

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Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

Joel Osteen

DreamsYour DreamsYouTrueCome

Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.

Robert Kennedy

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I had just been in some repressive situations - the black middle-class college scene and the crazy United States Air Force - and so I just felt like getting out of that. I thought, now, that I wanted to be a writer. I had something that I wanted to do, that I was interested in doing, so I wanted to pursue that.

Amiri Baraka

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I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own.

River Phoenix

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There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it.

Michael Pitt

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I am one with the popular culture.

Lloyd Blankfein

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That's another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it's as if things were coming together in my mind. It's like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it's it's like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

Jordan Peterson

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When I wanted to serve my country, I was forced to hide the most basic and human aspect of my life and my identity from the people to whom I was supposed to be the closest - and with whom I had to trust my life. I also had to hide from myself.

Chelsea Manning

LifeMyselfTrustIdentityPeople

The life of an actor is very random. It can be exhilarating but terrifying - you do wonder day to day where the next job will come from. Some of my friends are very talented people, but you see them out of work - which can be tough. If you wanted that kind of security, though, I guess you wouldn't be an actor in the first place.

Anne-Marie Duff

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I spent years doing 'Star Trek' bits and things, and a lot of people loved it, a lot of people mocked it.

William Shatner

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Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.

Linus Torvalds

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