James Russell Lowell Quotes
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.
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If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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The women of the Senate are like the U.S. Olympic team: we come in different sizes, but we sure are united in our determination to do the best for our country!
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has to be a recipient society to which the immigrants move.
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The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.
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It's a really natural thing: The people closest in your life are the people you want the first opinions from. At the end of the day, if you're not trying to impress those people first, then I think there's something wrong there.
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I grew up watching horror movies with my dad. For as long as I can remember. I grew up loving being terrified. 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' at sleepovers. Hiding behind my fingers.
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As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.
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I think me having kids is helpful. It opens up a new little area of your heart.
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I would like to leave this world and never return. I severed my ear, but how I wish that I had severed my heart. I shall never amount to anything.
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I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
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His heart kep' goin' pity-pat,But hern went pity-Zekle.
