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Ruby Dee Quotes

I didn't have the kind of talent or personality that kept me dreaming about Hollywood. They don't hire little colored girls to do this or that. After I got that in my head, I took another direction.

Ruby Dee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: October 27, 1922 - June 11, 2014

Topics

Personality Talent Me Direction Kind

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.

Joan Miro

Life Me Living More Human Secret

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?'

John Mayer

People Go England Certain Makes

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

Robert Redford

Respond Something Ambiguity Like

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.

Roger Waters

Father Best Creativity Poetry Think

I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life.

Mona Simpson

Life Whatever Fiction Believer Works

There is a term called political correctness, and I consider it to be a euphemism for political cowardice.

Milos Zeman

Political Political Correctness Term

If I eat junk food and have a workout the next day, I feel a significant difference in the way my body responds to exercise. I'm sluggish, tired and run out of energy very quickly.

Josie Loren

Food Day Tired Energy Exercise Body

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

Jonathan Swift

Best Doctor World Diet Quiet

Being able to communicate what your vision is clearly and with specificity is the most important thing a director can do.

David Slade

Vision Important Director Clearly

I've always loved acting, even from when I was a child. But when I got on stage, I realised I couldn't act my way out of a paper bag. I was wild and full of unharnessed energy, but I was around all these seasoned performers like Rita Cullis. It was as if they were all in slow motion.

Claron McFadden

Child Energy Slow Loved Bag Acting

Everything I write doesn't appear to be biography until later. I often say that I've never written about anything I've experienced. Of course, that's not true. But it doesn't appear familiar to me at all. And maybe that's because I have to be in a kind of coma in order to write. If it appeared familiar, I wouldn't.

Suzan-Lori Parks

Me Say Kind True Never Write

More people living in less space can put greater strain on already limited sanitation resources, and this can create a fertile breeding ground for waterborne infectious disease and the insects spreading them.

Seth Berkley

Space People Create Living More