Charlie Sifford Quotes
I believe there's - now, don't get me wrong; I'm not prejudiced - there's some white people in this country who'll never accept the black man as a golfer. That's true.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
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It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
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Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.
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I will run against anybody.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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I hate fame. There's this assumption that everyone wants it - that by being a musician, I've signed up for it at some point. But personally, what I signed up for is sharing my music. I've always said I'd rather have four No. 10 songs than one No. 1 hit.
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I love being as bad as possible! You've got to love a bad girl. Look at 'Gone With the Wind,' Scarlett O'Hara - total bad girl, but you love her.
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Whether in services or in manufacturing, the trick is to stay ahead of the curve. I believe we should not wait to be disrupted - we should become disruptors ourselves.
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The most dangerous area where our laws are not being faithfully executed are the laws designed to protect Americans against the millions of aliens who enter our country illegally every year.
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I believe there's - now, don't get me wrong; I'm not prejudiced - there's some white people in this country who'll never accept the black man as a golfer. That's true.
