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Grace Jones Quotes

I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: model
Nationality:
Birth: May 19, 1948

Topics

Girl School High School Black High

It has been a tremendous privilege to serve the people of Utah during my time in the United States House of Representatives, but my time in the House should not be the sum total of my service.

Time Service People House Privilege

There couldn't possibly be a more label-driven industry than acting, seeing as every audition comes with a character breakdown: 'Beautiful, sassy, Latina, 20s'; 'African American, urban, pretty, early 30s'; 'Caucasian, blonde, modern girl next door'. Every role has a label; every casting is for something specific.

Girl Character Beautiful Door Acting

Data indicate that taxpayers may be paying their public servants more than a little too much.

Data Too Much More Little May Than

Preparation is a mentality... With wrestling being my background, I've always learned to overwork, overwork. Work, work, work, work. It's not always the talented that wins, but it's the one who puts in the most preparation and thought into things.

Work Preparation Thought Wrestling

My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.

Dennis Kucinich

Politics World View Philosophy Looks

It's a big responsibility dating me. Because I come with a little bit of baggage, you know?

Responsibility Dating Me You Know

I've had the good fortune of working with some amazing people. I mean, my first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.

Dennis Christopher

Good People Amazing Theatre Legend

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.

Chuck Palahniuk

Time Listening Trying Forget Try

When I was really little, I was on a Pop Warner squad. I did it for a year. My dad was a Pop Warner football coach. I did it because my best friend was also on this cheer squad, and of course I looked up to my sister who was a cheerleader, so I wanted to cheer.

Friend Best Football Sister Year Up

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

Susan B. Anthony

Today Woman Progress Law Wheel Same

What the American people deserve, I think, is a true, legitimate, peer-reviewed, objective, transparent discussion about CO2.

People Think American True Deserve

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

Doing You Acting Place Play First

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