Pearl Cleage Quotes
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In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
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'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.
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I never was a popular kid in class.
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The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
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I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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I'd done 'Peter Pan' in a little pre-K class or whatever.
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I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.
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If you're going to write thrillers, you have to make a decision if you are going to be realistic or go off and over.
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From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.
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Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
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I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.
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I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.
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All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
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And just as I was climbing into that first-class seat, and wrapping myself in a blanket, just as I was adjusting my pillow behind my head, and having a sip of that champagne, and just as I was bringing down and adjusting my Thai purple sleep mask, I had an inkling. I had a flash. I suddenly thought I knew what it was that had killed Marilyn Monroe.
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.
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I created a foundation for poor children called Sinfonia por el Peru, where they play in orchestras and choirs, learn values and get away from the bad life, become better citizens in every aspect.
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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.
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You can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over!
