Douglas Sirk Quotes
But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.
Douglas Sirk
Quotes to Explore
The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
Hannah Simone
Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
Ed Smith
In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
Karan Mahajan
I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
Gary Barlow
Take That
But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
Beatrice Wood
I never wanted to write really cheesy pop lyrics - like, 'baby, baby, the sun is shining' - that's not something that interests me personally. I'm always wanting to write something that has some kind of meaning.
Lauren Mayberry
Chvrches
Mass incarceration is the result of small, distinct steps, each of whose significance becomes more apparent over time, and only when considered in light of later events.
James Forman, Jr.
Let's see, what was my favorite of 'Golden Girls'. Anything Stan was involved with, I was obsessed with.
Jessica St. Clair
So many of the optimists in the world don't own a hundred dollars, and because of their optimism, never will.
E. W. Howe
But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.
Douglas Sirk
