Cicely Tyson Quotes

One lady told me that before she saw 'Sounder' she didn't believe black people could love each other, have deep relationships in the same way as white people.

Cicely Tyson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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You want to make a record that stands the test of time and that people enjoy.

Jim James

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If you do the things you enjoy and are good at, I really have a feeling that that will lead to having a fulfilling life, and people with fulfilling lives are able to be 'good people.'

Meghan Daum

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I suspect that we get used to particular sorts of stories being presented in particular sorts of ways, and we're so used to interpreting them and understanding what it is they're doing that we think of those forms and styles as faithful, complete depictions of reality.

Ann Leckie

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Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

Shirley Jackson

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We love salt, fat and sugar. We're hard-wired to go for those flavors. They trip our dopamine networks, which are our craving networks.

Michael Pollan

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If you think I'm over-the-top, I am.

Janice Dickinson

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I was fortunate enough to write about things I really love, and love can be very analytic.

Joseph Brodsky

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I was already committed to a play back in New York about Hans Christian Andersen, where Colleen Dewhurst was going to play my mother. I was excited about that, and I got this script called 'Back to the Future,' and I thumbed through it. Didn't pay a hell of a lot of attention.

Christopher Lloyd

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I prefer buying things and figuring out where to put them later than regretting not buying them.

Christian Louboutin

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As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.

Boz Scaggs

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Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

Arthur Erickson

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I think for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films.

Ava DuVernay

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