Dwight Henry Quotes

I have four boys and one girl. My daughter is my only little girl and I just love her to death. I can't even fix my mouth to tell her 'no' for anything.

Dwight Henry

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• Daughter

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• Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Experience
  • American
  • Alien

• As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Home
  • Society
  • Girl

• I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • People
  • Secret
  • Somebody

• Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • Always
  • Talking
  • Welcome

• Economically, ISIS is making money every day on the black market with their oil fields. But they are also putting money in banks. We know where those banks are. We should go after the banks and the facilitators using them.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Money
  • Black
  • Day

• I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Think
  • Television
  • Visual

• My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Night
  • Write
  • Very

• Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Obsessed
  • General
  • Sneakers

• My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Sister

• Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Stronger
  • Israel
  • Curse

• It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Work
  • May
  • Think

• Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Life
  • Effort
  • Thought

• If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Win

• The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Understanding
  • Communication
  • Security

• I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Down

• Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Work
  • Family
  • Home

• I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Lose
  • Losing
  • Chess

• I was so naive when I began acting, professionally.

  

  Alanna Ubach

• Just find what works for you, what style suits you best, and just be confident enough to rock it.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Style
  • Best
  • Rock

• Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

  

  Henry J. Kaiser
  • Problems
  • Opportunities
  • Clothes

• It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• I know that for me, whenever I'm in a situation where there's death or sickness, my personality is to come in and do whatever I can to ease anything I can, in terms of offering to take care of things. Cooking, organizing, things like that.

  

  Elizabeth Rodriguez
  • Death
  • Personality
  • Cooking

• I have four boys and one girl. My daughter is my only little girl and I just love her to death. I can't even fix my mouth to tell her 'no' for anything.

  

  Dwight Henry
  • Death
  • Girl
  • Daughter