Pearl Cleage Quotes
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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For the vlogging channel, I wanted to build the infrastructure and build up all the personalities in a way that felt like weren't just forcing the audience to watch everyone we have.
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I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.
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It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.
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I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.
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I love Le'Veon Bell.
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
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The Spanish and the American audiences are lunatics. They are very passionate and, like the Irish, they don't have as many inhibitions. If you are playing somewhere like Austria or Sweden, it takes them a little while to come out of themselves.
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In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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I'm able to go out there, and I'm really able to be, like, unabashedly myself. And I want somebody who's young, who's struggling, who's not sure if it's OK if they are themselves to know that it's OK.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.
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Loneliness is random; solitude is ritual.
