Jean Stafford Quotes
You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing.Jean Stafford
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
Harold Nicholas -
A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
Abigail Breslin -
Stability cannot occur without a Palestinian Spring through the full implementation of the Palestinians' right to self-determination on their land.
Najib Mikati -
Hip-hop is a vehicle.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
Vash Young -
When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
Orlando Bloom
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I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
Kate Thompson -
My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
Mahershala Ali -
What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
Laura Dern -
The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
Iain McGilchrist -
I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
R. Kelly -
It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
Edna Ferber
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
Victor Hugo -
I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it.
M. F. Husain -
If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
Ralph Nader -
You don't know where life takes you.
Ian McShane -
We visited Ravi. We didn't study with him, as such.
Gary Wright -
Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?
Garrett Fort
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
Aldous Huxley -
Last month, 80,000 Americans signed on to new jobs, but 85,000 Americas signed on for Social Security disability checks. Most of these people are not 'disabled' as that term is generally understood. Rather, it's the U.S. economy that's disabled, and thus Obama incentivizes dependency.
Mark Steyn -
Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.
Benny Green -
If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair shop. I felt insulted. I didn't realize the teacher was saying, 'Make it shine. It's worth it.' Now I see revision as a beautiful word of hope. It's a new vision of something. It means you don't have to be perfect the first time. What a relief!
Naomi Shihab Nye -
Never paint except with the three primary colors red, blue, and yellow and their derivatives.
Camille Pissarro -
You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing.
Jean Stafford