LisaRaye McCoy-Misick Quotes

When I was younger, I thought LisaRaye sounded so country, but I've come to really appreciate my family-given name. I was named after my father, David Ray McCoy, and I'm totally a daddy's girl.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 23, 1967

Topics

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Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.

John Cameron Mitchell

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I have an occasionally recurring stutter, but not when in character on stage in a play. Odd. James Earl Jones has the same pattern; he stutters in everyday life but not when acting. Preparation requires an actor's concentration to make the words belong to another person, which is its own sort of trance.

John Casey

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I pray, read the word, and then creative stuff happens here. Problem-solving and all of that comes into that space. So 'Da Box' actually represents my sanctuary and that time. I might look trapped in a box, but I'm actually more free in that box than anyone on the outside looking in or in any other space in my life.

Andra Day

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Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.

Meg Rosoff

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While we have made great progress in increasing funding for veterans' benefits, we still have a long way to go in fully meeting the promise to our veterans.

Sue Kelly

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There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

Sidney Poitier

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I think there's a freedom in freeing yourself of the baggage of ability.

Simon Helberg

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Initially, I just used the guitar as a prop. I'd pose with it in front of a mirror in my Kiss makeup when I was skipping school. Then I figured out how to play the main riff to Deep Purple's 'Smoke on the Water' on just the E string. Next, my old man showed me how to play barre chords, and that's when things started getting really heavy.

Dimebag Darrell

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Alistair made my goals feel more achievable. I remember him competing for Great Britain when he was 15, and he came back with his GB kit. I thought, 'Wow, I want a part of that.' Sportsmen can seem distant, like superheroes. Seeing my brother achieve that made me think I could, too.

Jonathan Brownlee

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I read kind of serious books about fairly arcane subjects.

Christopher Guest

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I think a lot of people saw 'Fight Club' and thought, 'Right, here's our next Che Guevara, here's our next Fidel Castro, here's someone who's going to wave the flag.' And I was like, 'No, it's just a book. And if I beat that drum, if I play that song one more time, I won't have a career.'

Chuck Palahniuk

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At the Paris Opera Ballet, they were always making choices for me.

Sylvie Guillem

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