Cress Williams Quotes

Who I always refer to as my acting mentor when I got into junior college is an acting professor by the name of Tom Blank. He took me under his wing, and he was that strong male figure. He was tough love, but he believed in me, saw everything that I had.

Cress Williams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: July 26, 1970

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For a lot of people, well-meaning teaching has made poetry seem arcane, difficult, a kind of brown-knotting medicine that might be good for you but doesn't taste so good. So I tried to make a collection of poetry that would be fun. And that would bring out poetry as an art, rather than the challenge to say smart things.

Robert Pinsky

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Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Meryl Streep

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I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972; every law school was looking for its woman. Why? Because Stan Pottinger, who was then head of the office for civil rights of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, was enforcing the Nixon government contract program.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Before Ricky Gervais came along, I was a jobbing actress and perfectly content if a little unfulfilled: I'd just done an advert for Imodium. That year, 1999, I auditioned for four parts. 'The Office' was the only one I got. What its success gave me was freedom of choice.

Lucy Davis

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As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

Jordan Peterson

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Don't let anyone tell you not to do what you want to do.

Brad Goreski

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I don't watch a lot of TV, but I watch cartoons. And documentaries.

Britne Oldford

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I've never made football my priority. My priorities are my faith and my dependence on God.

Bobby Bowden

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My perfect weekend is going for a walk with my family in the park. I don't think there's anything better.

Anne Wojcicki

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At SBI, we say that if you need a project to be done, you need to be determined that it needs to be done, put a deadline, and it will get done.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

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I think the world is always going to be as diverse as it always has been.

Pico Iyer

WorldThinkAlwaysGoingBeen

I am donating $10,000 from my inaugural committee to the 'Pink Pack' because the only way we will find a cure for cancer is by joining together, pooling our resources, and focusing on the lifesaving mission that everyone can fight back against cancer.

Susana Martinez

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