Bernice Johnson Reagon Quotes
At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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Glamour is fun! Spending time to get ready isn't about being fussy; it's about taking care of myself.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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I started out doing musicals.
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We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.
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You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.
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Her continuity - you know, if you connect Harriet Tubman, who died in 1913, to Rosa Parks, born in 1913, you get this extraordinary spectrum of the African-American experience.
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In rain water, I observed a small red worm and two other kinds of very minute insects; of those of the larger size, I judged that 30,000 together would not equal a coarse sand.
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I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die.
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At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.
