Darryl Pinckney Quotes
The demise of Reconstruction had made it hard for blacks to acquire capital or to pass on property to their children. As blacks were driven from all but the most limited spheres of business and political life, the prestige of the professional rose in the black community.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They treated us all the same, and I just want to be like them when I grow up.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
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Eating is my main hobby now, and most of what I do on the weekend revolves around that.
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I was incredibly lucky that my first book found a large and loyal readership. It changed my life - from being a very withdrawn adult to living in Paris as a full-time writer. It has also given me enormous confidence.
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The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.
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We could secure the border in 72 hours. We could. We just don't have the political will in Washington.
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The demise of Reconstruction had made it hard for blacks to acquire capital or to pass on property to their children. As blacks were driven from all but the most limited spheres of business and political life, the prestige of the professional rose in the black community.
