Pearl Cleage Quotes
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
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We were descended from royalty.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.
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Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
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I have this concept that I call 'Combo Meals.' The idea is that I start with the kids' meal and then add a few more ingredients, and it becomes the adult meal. This way I'm not making two entirely separate dishes. I'm just simply adding on to what I'm already making.
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This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.
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I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.
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The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.
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Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home.
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Vera Stark is a fabulous force of nature.
