Frederick Douglass Quotes
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I have an appetite to always learn.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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I love action movies.
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.
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Wild men are so enormously attractive.
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The challenge in daytime in particular, I think, is to go against all the traditional cliches of daytime and try to make it real.
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There is a well-established process by which a prosecutor can recuse themselves from a pending investigation and a special prosecutor be appointed.
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
