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I was adopted by two amazing people: a Salvadoran mother and a white father who were incredibly supportive of me and my work. I am eternally grateful for them. Gina Prince-Bythewood
adopted life urban
I'm a farm boy from Connecticut, and I adopted urban life. William Atherton
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What Christopher Nolan and I have done with 'Superman' is try to bring the same naturalistic approach that we adopted for the 'Batman' trilogy. We always had a naturalistic approach; we want our stories to be rooted in reality, like they could happen in the same world we live in. David S. Goyer
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For many years, when still a Yugoslav citizen, I was already a Swiss patriot, and in 1959, I obtained Swiss citizenship. However, I consider myself a world citizen, and I am very grateful to my adopted country that it allows me to be one. Vladimir Prelog
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The 3-point shot has been one of the greatest things we've done for the game. The first year it was a state adopted rule. The next year because of overwhelming success, people were pleased with the rule and it became the norm. Mary Struckhoff
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The approach adopted by the government to muzzle the press must be resisted by all Kenyans.
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Many European countries, as well as Australia, Canada, Israel, and New Zealand, have adopted legislation that creates a 'public lending right', where the government recognises that enabling hundreds of people to read a single copy of a book provides a public good, but that doing so is likely to reduce sales of the book. Peter Singer
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My daughter arrived when I was five months pregnant with my son. We adopted Melanie from Korea; she was 2 years old, almost 3. I always wanted to have a family. I had a good example because Melissa Hayden was a ballerina in our company, and she had two children and danced afterward, and Allegra Kent also did. Patricia McBride
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I came into this environment where there was so much love, so much positive energy. I never heard my parents say, 'We have adopted kids.' The minute my sister Linda and I landed in Sweden, we were their kids. Marcus Samuelsson
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak. Yael Grobglas
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks. Yanis Varoufakis
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Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense - almost a covert longing - that the old corrupt structures on which that job depends needs to be, ought to be, swept away. Tina Brown
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My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive. Ice T
almost call films represents
If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.' Idris Elba
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I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you. Isobelle Carmody
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Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for. Gavyn Davies
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You've seen my statements; I do very well. I don't mind paying some taxes. The middle class is getting clobbered in this country. You know the middle class built this country, not the hedge fund guys, but I know people in hedge funds that pay almost nothing, and it's ridiculous, OK? Donald Trump
almost commit concrete faith ourselves seems wholly
It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.' Zadie Smith
portable status
I would like to think of my own status as what you called 'citizen of the world' or a 'citizen of a portable world,' if not of the world. Azar Nafisi
portable quotes
Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.
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I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the character, I won't do it because I couldn't do it justice. Esther Rolle
reasoning judged
Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all. C. S. Lewis
reason
That was, in my mind, the reason we won.
reason wake
That was the only reason. You wake up every day and find a reason to go on. My reason is I have kids.
reason
We just couldn't get on the same page. That's really the only reason why. Paul DePodesta
reason work
I think it will work out. If for some reason it doesn't, we'll have to go back in and re-evaluate it. But it's better than what we have right now.
reason instinct seats
You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct. Becca Fitzpatrick
reason
We can be the world's AFL team, for sure. There's no reason we couldn't be. Jon Jovi
reason stay
The problem, ... is there is no reason to stay long in to the weekend.
writers
There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium. Brian K. Vaughan
writers
Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in. Chevy Stevens
writers
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. John Dos Passos
writers-and-writing
Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it. Jean Paul
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Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words. Arthur Bryant
writers
Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness. Charlaine Harris
writers
Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre. Sara Sheridan
writers written
I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.
writers written
In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate. Robert Klein