John Edgar Wideman Quotes
I think I was kind of melancholy as a kid. I spent a lot of time inside my own head, a lot of time sort of staring into space wondering the hell was going on.
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The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.
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To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people.
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I'm going to scream this from the mountain top, there's no such thing as 'a curry.' There's six kazillion different kinds of curry. When someone asks how to make chicken curry, I have to ask 'Which one?'
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As long as the rent's getting paid, you don't think about getting out of the game.
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We all know that on Broadway you need to have stars to do a play.
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I think I was kind of melancholy as a kid. I spent a lot of time inside my own head, a lot of time sort of staring into space wondering the hell was going on.
