James Baldwin Quotes
Art has to be a kind of confession. I don't mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it seems to me, is: if you can examine and face your life, you can discover the terms with which you are connected to other lives, and they can discover them, too - the terms with which they are connected to other people.
James Baldwin
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
Barbara McClintock
You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
Irwin Shaw
And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
Patrick Macnee
I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
Mads Mikkelsen
Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
Nat Wolff
Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
Osman Rashid
The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
Walter Winchell
I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
Walter Cronkite
You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
Calvin Johnson
When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
Yami Gautam
As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
B. D. Wong
It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
Ira Glass
Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.
David Icke
My show was so personal, I made it feel like you and I were the only ones there. And I’d say: Boys and girls, come here. Uncle Jack wants to tell you something. You go get Mother or Daddy, Grandmother, Grandfather, whoever is in the house. You go get them, and you make sure they exercise with me.
Jack LaLanne
I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently sympathetic.
Damien Chazelle
I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.
Park Geun-hye
I am working and improving every day, and I am happy with my work.
Alexandre Pato
Art has to be a kind of confession. I don't mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it seems to me, is: if you can examine and face your life, you can discover the terms with which you are connected to other lives, and they can discover them, too - the terms with which they are connected to other people.
James Baldwin
