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I have noticed a growth in demand from audiences to include more women of colour and women to be cast as significant roles in TV shows and movies.

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Parents have absolutely every right to express their opinions at public school board meetings concerning their children's education.

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The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

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Music was always heavily involved with my spirit. My entire family is Jamaican. It's nothing but reggae music and those kinds of vibes.

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I saw everything on my parents, and I said to myself: 'I don't want to live my life like this.' They gave me everything they could but it was not amazing.

Of all my movies, I feel that 'Krishna Gopalakrishna' remains one of my best works though it could not be called a box office success. I maintain that it was far ahead of its time.

I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

It's very important to me that every person takes away their own meaning from a song, and it's why I don't always love spelling out what a song is about for somebody.

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I'm tired of hearing people say 'Reggie Jackson needs New York, needs the media, needs the attention.' I've always gotten it whenever I wanted it.

I have spent a lot of time with foster children over the years - kids for whom I have not necessarily acted as a foster parent.

We live in a society that wants to label you with a color, sexuality, religion, or ethnicity. It divides us, but it also allows us to find pride in our identity.

I am a special footballer, and I need to be happy when I'm playing.

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

How someone treats a waiter or doorman can tell you so much about a person.

I feel like when you're making the album, you can't really see the forest through the trees a little bit about what's about or what you're trying to get across.

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How can people change their minds about us if they don't know who we are?

There is nothing like hearing people sing your single back to you during a show.

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I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it's good to add colour.

As a feminist of Egyptian and Muslim descent, my life's work has been informed by the belief that religion and culture must never be used to justify the subjugation of women.

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I used to run a Japanese review website way back in the day, around about 2003, 2004. It was just my own little personal thing, because I was just obsessed with Japanese cinema.