Faith Ringgold Quotes
I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one.
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Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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My health is fine.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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On my actual 16th birthday, on the actual day, I went home and I had chicken korma and Peshwari naan bread and pilau rice, and that was fantastic.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.
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If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I take my work seriously, but I don't necessarily take myself seriously.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time.
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I buy when other people are selling.
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Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.
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Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.
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There are always people who are into the old way of doing things. I don't think it's a bad thing necessarily, but things change - nothing stays the same. If you can stay true to yourself, you're always going to be legendary.
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The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.
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This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.
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I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one.
