Darryl Pinckney Quotes

I wrote 'Black Deutschland' very quickly one summer, probably because I had a lot of it in pieces and fragments sitting around over the years as false starts or notes.

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• I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Long
  • House
  • Success

• I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • More
  • Now
  • Class

• I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Personality
  • Angry
  • Roles

• There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • America
  • Strong
  • Party

• Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Peace
  • Tolerance
  • Sibling

• The Fed has become an accomplice in the support of totalitarian regimes throughout the world.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • World
  • Support
  • Totalitarian

• I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Song
  • Player
  • Body

• Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Simple
  • Daily

• People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Others

• The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Art
  • Always
  • Theatre

• Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Different
  • Enjoy
  • Afternoon

• Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • End
  • Aim
  • Noble

• I love New York. Love it.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Love
  • New
  • New York

• I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Morning

• That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Business
  • Think
  • Wish

• But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • People
  • Trying
  • Ideas

• As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Learning
  • Capable
  • Cruel

• I was kind of always the underdog.

  

  Ashley McBryde

• Today we are at a crossroads. The technology is available for two great options: The massive surveillance state, or the renewed freedom of a deeply-involved citizenry thinking independently and holding the government to the highest standards.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Today

• I have a cousin who, at age 36, passed away from cancer, and she left three girls.

  

  Andrea Navedo
  • She
  • Age
  • Cancer

• I have 18 tattoos. My tattoos have kind of become their own person. Everybody does stories on them. It is risky to be successful in the fashion industry and to tat your body up, but I figured, the way that I made my career and the way that I am successful is because I have always been myself.

  

  Jessica White
  • Up
  • Career
  • Fashion

• For the cable news guest, nothing happens for a while until suddenly everything happens very quickly. After you receive your television face, you stand around for a while, ignored, until you're sat down at a desk and asked to argue with strangers.

  

  Alex Pareene

• I wrote 'Black Deutschland' very quickly one summer, probably because I had a lot of it in pieces and fragments sitting around over the years as false starts or notes.

  

  Darryl Pinckney
  • Black
  • Summer