Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
The civil rights movement was about access to public space. We had to fight for public space.Jacqueline Woodson
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I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.
Ranbir Kapoor -
If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.
Ofra Strauss -
Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
Jack Schwartz -
I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
Victoria Wood -
Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
Adam Hochschild -
And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say.
Latrell Sprewell
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
Eddie Murphy -
Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
Nargis Fakhri -
A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
Abbas Kiarostami -
But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
Victoria de los Angeles -
I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
Harold Pinter -
As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
Karin Slaughter
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Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
T. S. Eliot -
If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.
Nathan Myhrvold -
Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
N. K. Jemisin -
There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
Calvin Klein -
The best thing you can do for your body is sleep. It's simple. Cater to your body as much as to your mind. Your body, after all, houses your mind. You have to pay attention to your physicality as much as your mentality.
Kajol -
Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.
Laura Dern
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I never tell my boyfriend that I'm busy when I'm not. No matter how effective they are, cheap techniques like that just don't agree with me. So it's always okay, it's always all right. In my opinion the surest way to hook a man is to be as open with him as possible.
Banana Yoshimoto -
When you make an observation, you have an obligation.
M. K. Asante -
Trump is the candidate giving voice to untold millions of fed-up Americans witnessing a purposeful destruction of our economy and the equal opportunity for success that made America exceptional, we're watching career politicians throw away our kids' future through bankrupting public budgets and ripping open our porous borders which, obvious to all us non-politicians, puts us at great risk.
Sarah Palin -
Some people have become [in U.S] a lot more conservative but I can't really speak about that because I wasn't there. I feel compassion for their pain but it distresses me to see them all become more patriotic.
Nan Goldin -
When I wrote 'The Girl on the Train,' nobody knew who I was, and that's quite a comfortable position to be writing in.
Paula Hawkins -
The civil rights movement was about access to public space. We had to fight for public space.
Jacqueline Woodson