Marley Dias Quotes

My mom was born in Jamaica and has always been around a community of black people, so she encouraged me to get out and act. My dad, on the other hand, is from suburban Massachusetts, so he had not been around a lot of black people.

Marley Dias

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CommunityPeopleMeMomBlackBorn

Most people know nobody in the military.

Jim Mattis

PeopleNobodyKnowMilitaryMost

The face of America's eviction epidemic is a mom with kids.

Matthew Desmond

MomFaceAmericaKidsEpidemic

I'm an optimistic guy.

Michael Douglas

GuyOptimistic

My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill for me. I don't really remember what we talked about.

Steven Wright

GreatHeroMeBookRememberMeet

If you're at the Oscars, there's not a man on that red carpet who is not wearing make-up. Most straight actors I know get quite used to it. Even when they go out in real life they grab some sort of bronzer and they throw it on. They dye their eyebrows, they dye their lashes - they know the tricks.

Tom Ford

LifeManRedYouGoKnow

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.

Robert Anthony

CourageAfraidActWillingness

I don't know what it would have been like to grow up with a man in the house.

Michaela Coel

CollegeOnlyEncountered

Young people think that nothing bad will ever happen to them.

Loni Anderson

PeopleThinkBadYoungNothingWill

We're doing a partial green nursery and trying as hard as we can to do as much organic stuff for our nursery as we can.

Lisa Ling

GreenDoingTryingHardOrganicOur

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

Jose Saramago

CitizenBecomeChangesObligation

I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with great artists from all over the world.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

WorkGreatWorldWantHollywood

You can blame outside factors or make excuses about why things didn't work out, but that doesn't change anything.

Chris Gardner

WorkChangeBlameExcusesYouWhy

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