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Roxie Roker Quotes

I don't like that putdown: that when you're trying to achieve, you're trying to be white. That makes me mad.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality:
Birth: August 28, 1929 - December 2, 1995

Topics

Me Trying You White Mad Achieve

You can't deduce the personality of the potter from the pots. It's a thingy you've made and offered to somebody else for their use, and, believe me, a novel is like that. It's a made thing and ought not to contain a direct self-expression of the writer.

Jill Paton Walsh

Personality Me Believe You Made

I don't lead with an iron fist. I don't yell at people. I have a way of making my opinion clear.

People Opinion Way Lead Iron Clear

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

Beginning Government Social Been Who

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

Robert Fitzgerald

Poetry Elegance Revelation Most

There's so many Chinese or Asian Americans that were either born in another country like I was and raised in America or born in America and raised in America. They're normal Americans, and they just happen to have a different heritage.

America Heritage Born Country Asian

I think most people have a general sense that when you're released from prison, life is hard, but, you know, if you work hard and apply self-discipline and stay out of trouble, you can make it. But that's true only for a relative few.

Michelle Alexander

Life Work People Work Hard Think

Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.

Family Time World Legal Born Fraud

You need a manager that believes in you and shows that he believes in you by playing you.

You Manager Need Playing He Shows

I have watched 'Project Runway,' but I'm not a devout watcher of it. But I think it's a great show, what I've seen of it, and I think Tim Gunn is a very positive, amazing guy.

Positive Great Amazing Think Project

I have very strong relationships with my actors when I'm shooting. When you love an actor's work, you always feel you have to go further, and you make several films together. One film just gives you time to get acquainted.

Work Love Time Together Strong You

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Fear Art Discipline Enemy More Than

When you meet someone, you meet their face. It's the most potent part of the body to embellish.

Face Someone You Body Meet Potent

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