Mavis Staples Quotes
If you don't get out among the people, how are you going to know what they need to hear about?
Mavis Staples
Quotes to Explore
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
Gary Locke
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
Natalie Portman
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
Jack Dee
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
Ilan Stavans
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
Ibrahim Rugova
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
Olga Kurylenko
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
Becky G
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It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
Pardis Sabeti
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
Daniel Defoe
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
Ted Deutch
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I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
Rachelle Lefevre
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I used to feel that I spent too much of my time in my pajamas doing nothing, and I'd think 'in the time that I don't spend writing, I could raise a family of five.' In a lot of ways, being a writer is lonely and alienating.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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He hated the thought of the past; there was nothing that called out his love and fellowship toward the strangers he had come amongst; and the future was all dark.
George Eliot
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Marriage is an ongoing thing, man. You continue to work at it. But it's joyful. And joyous. I don't care if people are living without a marriage certificate. It's just about people, in some way, saying to each other, 'I commit to you. I will help you in this life.'
James McAvoy
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I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.
Action Bronson
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You never have to get over it you just have to get on with it.
Pam Muñoz Ryan
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If you don't get out among the people, how are you going to know what they need to hear about?
Mavis Staples
