Lorraine Toussaint Quotes

When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.

Lorraine Toussaint

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I think I'm always going to be a paranormal girl at heart. I'm always going to be intrigued by it.

Jennifer Armentrout

GirlHeartThinkAlwaysGoing

For me to pretend I'm the keeper of the small town mentality or that's all I'm interested in is wrong.

John Mellencamp

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To keep your he-man jaw muscles from smashing your precious teeth, the only set you have, the body evolved an automated braking system faster and more sophisticated than anything on a Lexus. The jaw knows its own strength. The faster and more recklessly you close your mouth, the less force the muscles are willing to apply.

Mary Roach

StrengthYouMouthBodyTeethMore

Every time you work on a project, it's a little vacation from the project you're working on the other 23 hours. That's the thing - it replenishes you to do something else.

Joss Whedon

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The Strauss allowed me to be a writer. Without it, 'The Emperor's Children' would not exist. When I received the award, I was teaching, had one baby, and was pregnant with another. There was no time for writing.

Claire Messud

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My mother was a seamstress, my father an itinerant carpenter.

Bob Menendez

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The CrossFit program is broad, general and inclusive, and most of all, the movements can be scaled down to any level of athlete. Just watch what I do with it on 'The Biggest Loser.'

Bob Harper

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I'm still the wife of Emmanuel Macron, not of the president.

Brigitte Macron

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You get caught up thinking about the future, you lose sight of the present.

Antonio Brown

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On camera, the audience can see your eyes close up - they can see behind your eyes - and when you're on stage, you need to make sure that the person sitting in the back row can feel what's happening behind your eyes, even if they can't see them. Having a live audience is exhilarating and exciting all on its own, but you know, it is quite different.

Annaleigh Ashford

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All I can tell you is 'Black Panther' sets up the MCU to go in a really wonderful new direction, sets up a new language, a new world for the MCU to play in, and that construction is then rocked to its core when Thanos enters in 'Infinity War' - get ready.

Winston Duke

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I went to elementary school in L.A. I was born in L.A. My mother was from Redondo Beach. My father was French. He died six months before I was born, so my mother went home. I was born there. Not the childhood that most people think. Middle-class, raised by my mother. Single mom.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

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