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Sterling K. Brown Quotes

I think what Hollywood is learning at large is that there is profitability in stories that are culturally specific and that you can only address the universal through the specific.

Sterling K. Brown

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american

Topics

Learning Think You Hollywood Through

I couldn't give away my husband's shoes. I could give away other things, but the shoes - I don't know what it was about the shoes, but a lot of people have mentioned to me that shoes took on more meaning than we generally think they do... their attachment to the ground, I don't know - but that did have a real resonance for me.

Joan Didion

Shoes People Me Husband Think Know

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

Mel Brooks

Good People Chance Stand Comedy You

I don't want artists to find themselves in a situation where there are only two buyers. That just doesn't seem like a good outcome.

John Landgraf

Good Find Situation Want Two Seem

The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain.

Robert M. Pirsig

Mountain Digital Top Gears Cycle He

You had to read what I wrote if you lived in L.A. in 1975 and cared about pop music.

Robert Hilburn

Music You Lived Pop Read Pop Music

But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health.

Ann Veneman

Health Animal Know Matter Muscle

I love 'Sunset Boulevard.' I love the writing, I love the performances, I love the camera work. I think it's a perfect movie.

Matt Bomer

Work Love Sunset Writing Think

I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.

Mary Roach

Change People Chance Urgency Talk

The FDA first began prohibiting gay and bisexual men from donating blood in the early 1980s, at the height of the AIDS crisis, when the risk from blood transfusion was just beginning to be understood. In the decades to follow, the 'lifetime ban' was left largely unchanged.

Mike Quigley

Men Beginning Early Gay Crisis Risk

Sometimes, being a single mother, I miss the freedom. I see my other friends with kids, and when they go out for a drink, it is the dad that stays in.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

Mother Freedom Friends Go Sometimes

I come from a district where the veterans are not the richest in the country.

Corrine Brown

Country Veterans Where Come Richest

I wouldn't say that I was a born performer, because I work very hard at it.

Anneliese van der Pol

Work Born Say Hard Because Very