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"I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that."
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings."

"I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage."

"I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else or as smart, or whatever."

"And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today."

"I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think."

"After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?"

"I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art."

"The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry."
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