Quotes by Tamara Tunie - Page 1

I always watch the work I do.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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Maths
Sciences
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I am always happy to use my song and dance training.
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Song And Dance
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I missed singing. I missed performing in a nightclub.
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Performing
Singing
Missed
Nightclub
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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Observation
Believe Always I Believe
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I grew up in a funeral home. Both my parents were morticians.
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Funeral
Both My Parents
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Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
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Chuck
Cooper
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I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood.
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Native
Native American
African
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I'm all about the drugstore beauty products. They're affordable and get the job done.
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Affordable
Drugstore
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I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.
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Columbus
Day New Every Day
Every Day
Irish
New Yorker
Yorker
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I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.
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Fleeting
Time Business Long
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I want to play Eva Peron. I've already done a lot of Shakespeare, but I'd like to do Lady Macbeth.
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Eva
Lady
Macbeth
Shakespeare
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I still enjoy doing the things I've always done, like going to a monthly dance party at a club downtown.
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Downtown
Monthly
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Even though you're married, you're still individuals. You still have to grow and nurture your individuality.
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Individuality
Nurture
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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Me Feet New
Firmly
Planted
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There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.
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Range
Shrunk
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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Blessed
Careers
Fickle
Long
Show Business
Business Long Will
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When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Musical Theater
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The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
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Mediums
Requires
Techniques
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I adore the designer B. Michael's curve-flattering gowns, but there is nothing better than jeans with a crisp white shirt.
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Designer
Jeans
Crisp
Michael
Shirt
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I've lived in New York for thirty years now, but I'm a proud Pittsburgher, and home is home. My family's still in Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh
Thirty
Family Home New
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Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.
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Luxury
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Fortunately, I'm known as the hardest-working woman in showbiz, not to compete with James Brown. I've always been a multi-tasker.
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Showbiz
Compete
Fortunately
James
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The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.
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Allowing
Partner
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Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
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Life Family Health
Crises
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I believe in saying 'yes.' I love to work, and I always believe that the schedule can work out if everything is willing to allow it to work out.
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Work Out
Love Work Believe
Schedule
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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Giants
Pittsburgh
Sunday
Fan
Originally
Rabid
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I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down.
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African American
Cat
Maggie
Richmond
Roof
Tin
Upside Down
Virginia
Upside
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I just think there are enough hours in the day. If you just focus and dedicate yourself and approach each task as it presents itself, you can accomplish a lot.
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Accomplish
Dedicate
Presents
Task
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I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.
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Funeral
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We sit and read the paper in conjunction with having a little breakfast. Usually fruit salad, or I make myself a smoothie with rice milk, coconut water and yogurt.
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Breakfast
Milk
Rice
Salad
Yogurt
Coconut
Conjunction
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My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.
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Access
African American
Heritage
Native
Native American
Embraced
Line
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I truly believe that when a person makes a concrete decision and takes action towards a goal they've set, that the universe will step in and provide opportunities.
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Opportunity
Believe
Goal
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I truly believe that when a person makes a concrete decision and takes action towards a goal that they've set, that the universe will step in and provide opportunities.
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Concrete
Provide
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I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.
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Clubs
Hitting
Jazz
Wake Up
Music Jazz Listening
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Understand that the time in the audition is your time. Really own it and take control of it. And do what you prepared. Focus on really executing what it is that you intended to do.
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Executing
Prepared
Time Focus Your
Audition
Intended
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I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.
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Film And Television
Immediacy
Live Performance
Love Home Always
Love Home World
All The Difference
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The first thing I do is brush my teeth - we like to start the morning with fresh breath - and put on my pajamas and meander down to the kitchen for a glass of orange juice. No coffee. No caffeine.
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Caffeine
Coffee
Juice
Orange
Pajamas
Teeth
Brush
First Thing
Glass
The First Thing
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When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious choice to close the door on musicals, because I was getting pigeon-holed as a musical theater performer.
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New York
Conscious
Doors
Musical
Musical Theater
Years
Door
Pigeon-Holed
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You have to continue to grow and evolve as individuals in order for your marriage to evolve. It takes two pillars to support a structure. If those two pillars become one, you have a structure that teeters.
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Evolve
Pillars
Structure
Individuals
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I wanted to make a home that was similar to the kind of home that my mother made. To be able to create something like that in my adopted city, New York City, one of the toughest cities on the planet, is really special.
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Adopted
Cities
New York City
Home City New
Similar
Toughest
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I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.
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Holiday
Mills
Nancy
Pittsburgh
Supper
Wilson
Acts
Ben
Regularly
Sarah
Temptations
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I appreciate being able to give back to charities I care about such as the American Diabetes Association - my older sister passed away from diabetes - and Figure Skating in Harlem, which teaches young girls about confidence, focus and goal-setting.
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Association
Diabetes
Figure Skating
Older Sister
Charities
Passed
Teaches
Young Girls
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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
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Accomplished
Beats
Honesty
Remembered
Audition
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I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that performing was something that I had always done as a kid, and I loved it... I said, 'This makes people happy when I do this, I feel good, I get to pretend and explore other areas and learn so much'.
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Decided
Feel Good
High School
Performing
Senior
Senior Year
Trajectory
Good Feel Good People
Good Always Done
Pretend
Explore
Good People Always
Prep
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