Fanny Kemble Quotes
...I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration which all reference to the possibility of a fusion of the races draws down upon those who suggest it, because nobody pretends to deny that, throughout the South, a large proportion of the population is the offspring of white men and colored women.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it's almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.
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Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
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I think mobile homes are a blight on the planet. Attractive, affordable housing is possible, and I'm out to prove it.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Every hour that you spend doing something, even if you love it more than anything, you're not with your family. Every project that you take on, that's another choice.
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For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.
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What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?
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I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.
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To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.
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...I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration which all reference to the possibility of a fusion of the races draws down upon those who suggest it, because nobody pretends to deny that, throughout the South, a large proportion of the population is the offspring of white men and colored women.
