Donald M. Payne Quotes
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I ended the war a horse ahead.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.
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All the animals I've painted always have a relationship with man. I have been told that part of the knowledge of the human anatomy comes from animals.
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I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.
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Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.
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I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings.
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Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
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I'm not saying it never occurred to me to want to write a masterpiece, but I really doubt I could.
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I believe in supporting African solutions to African problems.
