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I find I often do my best work when I'm not attached to the outcome of the audition.
— Lorraine Toussaint
It all began with dreams that did not come true.
— Cynthia Toussaint
We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger.
— Toussaint Louverture
Unite; for combination is stronger than witchcraft.
— Toussaint Louverture
I accept everything which is favorable for the people and the army; for myself, I wish to live in retirement.
— Toussaint Louverture
Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!
— Toussaint Louverture
Being a mom myself and it being a huge and important part of who I am, made it easier for me to play the role of a strong, fierce, giving mom.
— Lorraine Toussaint
And yet that's the best way to watch television actively: with your eyes closed.
— Jean-Philippe Toussaint
You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.
— Lorraine Toussaint
I know how to move the people, but I know also where to stop in my own actions so that, when I strike, I shall be felt and not seen.
— Toussaint Louverture
This gun is liberty; hold for certain that the day when you no more have it, you will be returned to slavery.
— Toussaint Louverture
As an early child, I tried to play every kind of music that I heard. I thought everyone was doing that.
— Allen Toussaint
I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.
— Lorraine Toussaint
To travel and to get around different places, especially in station wagons, you could really see America.
— Allen Toussaint
I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.
— Lorraine Toussaint
Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.
— Allen Toussaint
I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.
— Toussaint Louverture
It is the ordinariness of us that is the same in all of us.
— Lorraine Toussaint
It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life.
— Toussaint Louverture
I have a big life, a small child, I work, I do a lot of things, so I'm often playing catch-up with what's current.
— Lorraine Toussaint
I am so proud of Amelia Boynton. I can burst with pride.
— Lorraine Toussaint
As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.
— Lorraine Toussaint
I was born odd. I was a strange child. My grandmother was always praying over me. She was always rubbing me and praying over me.
— Lorraine Toussaint
I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.
— Lorraine Toussaint
As a young child, I thought that all pianists played everything. I mean, I thought anything on piano - any piano music, all pianists played it.
— Allen Toussaint
The chances of seeing an idea through to completion are inversely proportional to the time you've spent talking about it beforehand.
— Jean-Philippe Toussaint
I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor.
— Toussaint Louverture
We went to labor in the fields, my wife and I, hand in hand. Scarcely were we conscious of the fatigues of the day. Heaven always blessed our toil.
— Toussaint Louverture
And you hate me. "For something I didn't do and something you didn't see. Hate
— Carlyle Toussaint
And do respect the women of the world; remember you all had mothers.
— Allen Toussaint
They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!
— Toussaint Louverture
I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book.
— Lorraine Toussaint
The heads of regiments are required to see that the troops join in prayer morning and evening as far as the service will permit.
— Toussaint Louverture
I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man.
— Toussaint Louverture
Anything you need, you can get on YouTube. It's wacky.
— Lorraine Toussaint
The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.
— Lorraine Toussaint
The mother-in-laws themselves weren't natural jokes but most comedians used to use that.
— Allen Toussaint
I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.
— Lorraine Toussaint
My job as an actor is to cover and expose in varying allowance that - so that the audience can peek through the window to the people I create.
— Lorraine Toussaint
Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.
— Lorraine Toussaint
I love characters that are very layered and complex. It's more exciting and different than any simple role- plus, I love a good challenge.
— Lorraine Toussaint
A lot of our young people are sleep-walking, dreaming that they're awake, and lots of aspects of society initially go about keeping it so.
— Lorraine Toussaint
I don't think anyone would disagree with this: You are self-directed in daytime, and that's it. So come with it, and bring it on the first take.
— Lorraine Toussaint
I have need of Rigaud. He is violent. I want him for carrying on war; and that war is necessary to me.
— Toussaint Louverture
In the fight between you and reality, be discouraging.
— Jean-Philippe Toussaint