Delloreese Patricia Early (Della Reese) Quotes
Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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The opening of 'There Will Be Blood' with that score and then deafening silence was memorable.
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Even though society has come a long way in correcting the inequalities between men and women in the workplace, it still has to be said that women are oftentimes subconsciously playing to the gender roles which we are taught from birth.
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You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
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The ramifications that you set for yourself can inspire you to do things that you would have never thought of because, once you're trapped, your job is to persevere.
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The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.
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Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing.
