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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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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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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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare.
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One of the central mysteries of biology is why the genome is largely identical from cell to cell, even though cells do different things.
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If you're making too many excuses for someone, agonising over them in a way which takes up all your waking thoughts and feel so nervous around them you could be sick, then they are probably the wrong person.
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Never underestimate the repellent power of a negative mental attitude. It can prevent life's lucky breaks from benefiting you.
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Well, I think a lot of people only hear about the extreme, fundamentalist kind of polygamists, because they're always in the news being brought up on charges.
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Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.
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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.
