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Cicely Tyson Quotes

You never know what motivates you.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: December 19, 1933

Topics

Motivational You Know Never

Happiness? No, it's not there for me.

Robert Mapplethorpe

The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world.

Technology Law Law Enforcement World

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

American India Pay China Workers

So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well.

Alphonso Jackson

Responsibility Well Sure Making Runs

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

Progress Me Now Content Middle

I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'

Life Great Loneliness Depression Tea

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

Success Failure Director Shoulders

I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily.

People Think Feel Die Nice Want

It's not always about gold medals, I think. It has to be about development, and we are missing that in U.K. at the moment.

Lizzie Armitstead

Moment Gold Think Development Medals

You gotta have a good beat to survive in modern country in general. Everyone wants to feel good, laugh, dance, and cry. But at the same time, they all want it to sound happy.

Good Time Dance Happy Feel Good You

I guess I figured out my dad was a fight coordinator pretty early, because I always saw him running into walls and stuff and nobody got mad at him, but it took me a lot longer to figure out what Mom did, because it was usually stuff on the telephone.

Walls Fight Me Mom Early Mad

I have always hired people of different ages. Young people and older people. People in their 70s and in their 20s. People who are fully capable of talking back to me.

People Me Talking Back Young Always

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