Geneva Carr Quotes

I don't come from an artistic family, so I didn't know what theater was. I was working on Wall Street in the '90s, and I went to see 'Appointment With a High-Wire Lady' at Ensemble Studio Theatre, and it affected me so deeply. It changed everything I thought about the arts. I quit banking and became an actor.

Geneva Carr

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I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I was more in charge of who I was. What someone thought about me or said about me made less of an impression on me at very vulnerable times.

Robert Guillaume

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I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.

Robert Indiana

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Running is very spiritual for me. It is therapeutic; it clears my mind and helps me to focus.

Amy Locane

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I always thought I was a writer on the inside, but after a few years of not writing, you can't make that claim anymore.

Amor Towles

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What, exactly, did Sjahrir do for the Republic? ... His entire underground effort can be summed up by saying that he sat quietly and safely away somewhere listening to a clandestine radio.

Sukarno

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I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.

Steve Prefontaine

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I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.

Ron Chernow

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I'm interested in the idea that we all start off as these lovely little babies with all this potential but that circumstances mean that we don't always live the life we should.

Ruth Negga

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The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.

Mary Karr

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As the U.S., the world is questioning why not end it, and so if, in fact, we were to pull out, the world would definitely question why we did this to begin with. But I still believe the world would call upon us for help if they needed it.

Montel Williams

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I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.

Janice Dickinson

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Fools are without number.

Desiderius Erasmus

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