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As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
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Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
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Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.
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Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
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Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
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Even before I got on 'SNL' I assumed I would do some type of sitcom; I kind of thought that was how I would start. I don't mean to sound arrogant - I just thought I would be best suited to the form.
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Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not. His influence on the dissident writers of the Soviet Uniton was enormous. Figures like Grossman or Solzhenitsyn, although their language is less elevated, were dominated by a Tolstoyan desire to use fiction to tell the truth of history.
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Everything related to 'SNL,' that was very sudden - from the time I found out I was joining the cast to the time I could read on a blog that someone watching the show thinks I'm fat, that was about 30 days. That blog part, that could've moved a little more slowly. But hey - it's all material, right?
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Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education.
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For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.
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Frankly, 'Bride Wars' got made because movies with women need to be about weddings and love.
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