Pearl Cleage Quotes
I've always loved the '40s romantic comedies and the idea of those mistaken identities and lovers' misunderstandings.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
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I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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Several hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs live in slums known as refugee camps in Gaza, Judea, and Somalia. Attempts by Israel to rehabilitate and oust them have been defeated by Arab objections. Nor has their fate been any better in Arab states.
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I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.
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I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal establishment, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was the biggest opponent to him running.
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I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.
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The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.
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I ended up living at OJ's because Nicole bought a home that no longer had a guest house. OJ offered his guest house to me. Anybody in LA looking for a place knows the best places to live are guest houses.
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Those Laurel Canyon days were great. I have a real fondness for that era, 'til about '68. Musically, it was wonderful, and there was this great innocence, an idyllic view of the world. After that, everything got a little... edgy.
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I'm a huge fan of film and always have been.
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I sense a kind of fear of writing black or Asian characters from non-ethnic writers, who perhaps feel that they don't know the culture and therefore can't write about it. By and large, if there's an Asian character, I might get a call. But if the character is called 'Philip,' the chances are I won't.
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I've always loved the '40s romantic comedies and the idea of those mistaken identities and lovers' misunderstandings.
