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Cicely Tyson

"In my early years, there were a number of experiences that made me decide I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. There were a number of issues I wanted to address. And I wanted to use my career as a platform."

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Amber Hurdle

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

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Amber Hurdle

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

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Amber Hurdle

"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

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Amber Hurdle

"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."

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Amber Hurdle

"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."

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Amber Hurdle

"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."

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Amber Hurdle

"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."

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Amber Hurdle

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."

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Amber Hurdle

"It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty."

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Amber Hurdle

"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

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Cicely Tyson
"I don't condemn anyone for making their choices. If someone chooses those roles, fine. But not for me. When someone stops me and says, You're the reason I became an actress, that lets me know I made the right decision."

Decision

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Cicely Tyson
"We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?"

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"I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it."

Life

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Cicely Tyson
"In my early years, there were a number of experiences that made me decide I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. There were a number of issues I wanted to address. And I wanted to use my career as a platform."

Being

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Cicely Tyson
"When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going."

Mother

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Cicely Tyson
"When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know anything. If it's good I don't want to hear it; if it's bad I don't want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused."

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Cicely Tyson
"I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder."

Love

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