Tituss Burgess Quotes

Black people, if I may, we don't get a lot of opportunities to do a lot of different things outside the norm, outside of what is expected of us. Black women on Broadway are expected to put themselves downstage center and tear the roof off.

Tituss Burgess

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 21, 1979

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There were times, I could say, later in the career, that I wished that my voice would be deeper for materials that I might've wanted to select to do. But that's the style of my voice. There's nothing I can do about the height of my voice. And so I learned to deal with it.

Jimmy Scott

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I have always stuck to my guns about what I want from the work and what interests me. I've never been seduced down the evil path. The path of taking the money.

Joel Edgerton

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Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.

John Grierson

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The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.

Steve Lacy

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Yes! I am big comic book geek. I can't live without them.

Stefan Kapicic

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New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.

Mika

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Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables are controlled and predictable.

Michio Kaku

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I graduated from college in Ohio and bummed around for a while, and then I joined VISTA, which was a domestic Peace Corps kind of thing, and they sent me to Colorado.

Mojo Nixon

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Every teenager feels a wanting, a desire for something more, to be heard, to be seen.

Brad Falchuk

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I remember at the age of, and I'll say this, 10 and a half, 11, I had a natural boy soprano.

Anthony Warlow

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I always knew I wanted to be an actor, certainly from the age of eight or nine. I think when you know what you want to do, you're very lucky because you've got a focus.

Ashley Jensen

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It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.

Scott Adams

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