John Edgar Wideman Quotes

For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.

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• Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Important
  • Woman
  • Dress

• All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

  

  Walt Disney
  • True
  • Courage
  • Dreams

• A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Chinese
  • Stronger
  • Lead

• I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Night
  • Singing
  • Smoking

• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • College
  • Years
  • New York

• I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Experience
  • College
  • Road

• Home is where your rump rests.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Home
  • Where
  • Your

• I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Learning
  • Christmas
  • Spanish

• The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Ideas
  • Air
  • Breathing

• My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Heart
  • Fun
  • Me

• God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • King
  • Legal

• We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • America
  • Black

• When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

  

  Becky G
  • Writing
  • Start
  • Guitar

• I won't name any names, but I've done a couple of shows where once the pilot got picked up, the creators openly said, 'I have no idea where we're going.'

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Up
  • Done
  • Couple

• I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Silent

• I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • People
  • Mind
  • Together

• It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Up
  • Animal
  • Bird

• I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Business
  • Myself
  • Always

• There used to be lots of legitimate independent distributors: Fox Searchlight, Miramax, Lionsgate, Warner Independent, Focus Features, Paramount Vantage, Picturehouse and Fine Line. Most of them have closed.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • Focus
  • Independent

• I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Sell
  • Chrysler
  • Warranties

• The people who came to hear me perform or to buy my records were not the type who would be offended by the song 'The Vatican Rag'. But I gather that there were other people who were offended.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • People
  • Records
  • Type

• You are your main news platform, so no publication has as much power as you do about posting about yourself.

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • Power

• For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.

  

  John Edgar Wideman
  • People
  • Different
  • Art