James McBride Quotes
A lot of mixed-race stories are these navel-gazing, horrible accounts of mulatto tragedy.James McBride
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Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.
Randi Weingarten -
I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.
T. C. Boyle -
When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
J Mascis -
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
W. Somerset Maugham -
You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change.
Ian McShane -
I do love that witches haven't really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.
Madchen Amick
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I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.' I decided I would do all the things they did on that show.
Vanessa Ray -
One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.
Wayne Newton -
Disneyland is a show.
Walt Disney -
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
J. D. Salinger -
I have, indeed, lived most of my life overseas, but I've returned repeatedly to work in film, special television productions, and the New York theater. There have also been tributes and similar occasions that have called me back to Hollywood. I've returned so often, I almost feel that I've never left.
Olivia De Havilland -
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
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I trained myself, whenever I walk into auditions, to hate everyone in the room.
Adam Driver -
Fame gives you a high.
Hansika Motwani -
One of the wonderful things about wrestling, to me, is that you can protect people who have had head injuries.
Daniel Bryan -
What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.
Idris Elba -
I have always felt strongly about empowering women. I'm living proof that, with confidence and by believing in yourself, you can accomplish any goal.
Queen Latifah -
I had lived in that part of London that used to be called Islington since I was eight. I attended a private school for girls, leaving at sixteen to work. That was in the year 2056. AS 127, if you use the Scion calendar.
Samantha Shannon
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Between 'there is a God' and 'there is no God' lies a whole vast tract, which the really wise man crosses with great effort. A Russian knows one or other of these two extremes, and the middle tract between them does not interest him; and therefore he usually knows nothing, or very little. (Diary, 1897)
Anton Chekhov -
The work that Partners in Health do in Haiti benefits the whole world.
Win Butler -
There's always an article coming out, saying, 'The new thing is funny women!'
Lena Dunham -
To know what everyone knows is to know nothing.
Remy de Gourmont -
I shall call Ideological State Apparatuses (ISAs) a certain number of realities which present themselves to the immediate observer in the form of distinct and specialized institutions: ...
Louis Althusser -
A lot of mixed-race stories are these navel-gazing, horrible accounts of mulatto tragedy.
James McBride