Cicely Tyson Quotes

I don't condemn anyone for making their choices. If someone chooses those roles, fine. But not for me. When someone stops me and says, You're the reason I became an actress, that lets me know I made the right decision.

Cicely Tyson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.

Jill Lepore

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I love the Victoria's Secret Angels. They're sort of my gorgeous glamour heroes.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

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There's nothing fun about stuff like estate planning, getting mammograms, or talking to a guy about long term disability insurance, but do it anyway. Trust me, the stress of not having done the above is prematurely aging.

Jen Lancaster

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I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.

Andy Garcia

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I remember when Meryl Streep did an ad for American Express, the press harassed her.

Andie MacDowell

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When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.

Shunryu Suzuki

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I try not to judge my characters. If I'm looking at it from the outside, I'd say, 'No, she's not really a great mother.' But she wishes she were, and she wants to be, and she still has instincts toward protecting her son and wanting him to be a happy person.

Mira Sorvino

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I first went to Indonesia in 2001 for six months. I was to help a community of plantation workers to make a film documenting and dramatizing the struggle to organize a union in the aftermath of the Suharto dictatorship.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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I don't have to be working on an album to record a song.

DMX

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I can play in front of 30,000 people at Fenway and not be nervous at all. But I get really nervous in front of kids.

Coy Bowles

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I believe that the right thing for us to do, as much as we can and without confusing people, is to talk about how we're doing, the things that are going well but also the things that aren't going well.

Astro Teller

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I like tackling problems that I can see making an impact on real people and real businesses immediately.

Seth Priebatsch

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