Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
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I write in a small office at home.
Walter Dean Myers -
I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part - they weren't calling it an extra, but I didn't have lines. It was a 'featured' part.
J. K. Simmons -
I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
Jack Lowden -
All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
Idina Menzel -
The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
Faith Hill -
I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
Carine Roitfeld
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Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
Edmund Phelps -
I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
Patricia Heaton -
All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.
Carl Sandburg -
The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
Jack Huston -
If I stayed in London, I probably would have gotten more work. I've never wanted to be thought of as an 'It' girl, someone who rides on the coattails of my mother.
Tali Lennox -
I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
Maggie Rowe
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
S. Truett Cathy -
I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
Zach Braff -
Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
Sam Harris -
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde -
If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
Patrick Dempsey -
I feel like there is a part of me that represents a minority in the U.S., a minority around the world. People who struggle, people who want to succeed with drive and ambition.
Shakira
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Who's gonna love you when your looks are gone?
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel -
Playing new songs at festivals is weird, obviously. People at festivals are always a bit drunk, and probably just want to hear stuff they know by bands they love, or are checking you out and don't know your stuff very well.
Dan Smith -
I don't live in L.A. I actually live in Atlanta, Georgia. After I graduated from Spelman, I just stayed and never left. And I love it.
Keshia Knight Pulliam -
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
William Hazlitt -
There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.
Ta-Nehisi Coates