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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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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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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It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.
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Honor is but an empty bubble.
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In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
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We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
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What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.
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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.
