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Cicely Tyson Quotes

Unless a piece really said something, I had no interest in it. I have got to know that I have served some purpose here.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Purpose Know Said Something Here

My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.

Family Queen Voice Language American

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Past Child Believe Chance Present

All of the reality TV I've done has usually been simultaneously an opportunity to create awareness or raise funds for my mom's breast cancer organization.

Stephen Baldwin

Opportunity Mom Organization Reality

I really think the people I run into in the NBA, whether it's the front office side or in coaching, everybody wants to work in an atmosphere where everybody's pulling in the same direction.

Work People Direction Think Run

The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.

Food Government Stupidity Committee

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

Experience Past Unhappy Enough Own

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

Music You Creating Box Out Take

It's always an interesting sort of adventures that gets someone into a movie.

Interesting Someone Always Adventures

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

War Present Brainy Results Brilliant

I think like my dad, but I have a huge kinship with my mom.

Mom Think Like I Think Huge Kinship

The Internet was invented in America but has found its largest number of users in China.

Internet America China Number Found

I'm just a lipgloss, blush and mascara kind of girl. I like playing with a bright lipstick or a heavy eye... But not together!

Girl Together Eye Lipstick Kind

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