"I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else."

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Source : "Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" by Susan Ratcliffe, (p. 208), 2012.

Lena Horne

#Afterlife Quotes #White Quotes #Hollywood Quotes

“I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.”
“When girls are asking themselves 'Who am I?' for the first time and they hear all this bad PR about math, they think, 'Well, whoever I am, I'm not somebody who likes math.'”
“There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.”

Source : Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.9, Broadview Press
“Life was too short and ended too suddenly. If you didn't take advantage of what you had today, tomorrow it might be ripped from you.”

Source : Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.166, Penguin
“The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.”
“Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.”
“I like my jokes to be built on a foundation of ideas, or at least smart observations.”
“I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.”

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