Cicely Tyson Quotes

As far as 'Jane Pittman,' I don't know that I could verbalize, to this day, what I felt once I got into that role. I did a tremendous amount of research. I need to feel as though I am in the person's skin.

Cicely Tyson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.

Meir Kahane

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You either respect people's liberties, or you don't.

Mauricio Macri

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Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win.

Amy Alcott

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You change or you hide your head in the sand.

Tony Gilroy

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All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street.

Robert Cormier

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I've never enriched myself via privatization schemes in Eastern Europe.

Joshua Cohen

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I only write about stuff that sort of happens to me, and then I blow it up into a much funnier version.

Jason Jones

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I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.

Jon Hamm

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No adviser to a president is going to get his way all of the time, but at a minimum, that adviser should be able to defend the tilt of an administration's policy as if it were his own. If not, he should make room for those who can.

Bret Stephens

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I love to design clothing that is not out there for your average plus-size woman, and I want to fill in the gap of that industry and not design cookie-cutter things.

Ashley Nell Tipton

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It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.

Wynton Marsalis

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The amusing thing about 'X-Force' is that it was highly rated - and hated - in about equal measure, Which suited me just fine. If no-one's feathers were a little ruffled, we probably wouldn't have been doing our jobs right.

Peter Milligan

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