Marianne Jean-Baptiste Quotes

I'm a member of the African diaspora: my parents left the Caribbean and came to London for a better life.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 26, 1967

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I think 'Pan's Labyrinth' is genius.

Joe Dante

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If someone's lying about something small, you don't know what else they're lying about. I'm a big girl, I can handle the truth - even if it's not good news.

Jennifer Morrison

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When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.

Anna Kournikova

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When you're a comedian, and you show up on set to a job where you're not writing, and you get handed material that's as good as we do on 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine,' you just feel lucky every day.

Andy Samberg

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There are nineteen Harry Bosch books, and someone told me if you add up the descriptions of Harry from all of them, it would come to less than three pages. He's very elliptically described over the two decades during which the novels occur. I did that by intention.

Michael Connelly

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I worked with practically everybody in the business in all of the years in NBC, but I worked personally many years with people like Crosby and Sinatra, so of course that was a great ground school for me.

Skitch Henderson

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I've done a lot of period dramas, but I love modern productions, too.

Rupert Evans

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It's not like the right for gay people to marry just happened.

Matt Bomer

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Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary speech is usually corrected when it's transcribed into written prose.

Joyce Carol Oates

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Denard Robinson was my quarterback in high school. Never had his shoes tied. I don't see how you can play like that.

Jason Pierre-Paul

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Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

Desi Arnaz

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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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