Kevin Young Quotes

Blackface remains exoticist and offensive as a practice, not just because of its long tradition of being used to mock black selfhood, sexuality, and speech but because of its assertion that black people are merely white people sullied by dark skin.

Kevin Young

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Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.

Michael C. Burgess

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It's funny how intimate it feels to get a text.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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When Savage died, that was hard on me. I didn't even hardly know Randy, but I just turned 51 this past December, and he was 58 when he died. I'm like, 'Hey man, just because I'm in that line of work, do I have an expiration date? Am I supposed to go?' I always wonder, but I don't harbor it.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

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Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

Marvin J. Ashton

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In most professions, if you stay at the office an extra four hours every day, you're gonna impress the boss. You're gonna get that promotion; you're gonna get that raise. You're gonna at least have job security. But with acting, if you're really ambitious and you have a good work ethic and are really good at your job, it might not really matter.

Jason Bateman

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My first job out of CalArts was performing monologues at the Women of Faith conferences across the country.

Deborah Joy Winans

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I think my advice to other actors would be to get in classes. Get out in front of people. Put up scenes in front of your peers.

Chelsea Kane

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I was such a huge 'Seinfeld' fan, and I walked on the set, and I saw Kramer. I walked into Jerry's apartment, and I was like, 'Oh my God, this is Jerry's apartment.'

Constance Zimmer

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Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.

Brad Henry

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Walk out of the house the way you feel you want to look that day - it doesn't mean you have to stick to that style for the rest of your life.

Brad Goreski

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If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

Austin Carlile

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It's awkward: Here you are with most of your clothes off in bed with this person who you've really just met. You're strangers to each other's bodies and you're coming together for the first time in front of all these people.

Sheryl Lee

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