John Edgar Wideman Quotes
That's what writing is: it's imagining that you can make a world. That's what basketball is, too: it's imagining the game as a world.John Edgar Wideman
Quotes to Explore
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
Zadie Smith -
The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
Earl Weaver -
For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.
Bahman Ghobadi -
I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
Kanye West -
Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.
Larry the Cable Guy -
The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
Haile Gebrselassie
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
J. B. Priestley -
The Department of Justice will continue to pursue those that travel to fight against the United States and our allies, as well as those individuals that recruit others on behalf of ISIL in the homeland.
Dana Boente -
Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
Ted Cruz -
There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
Maggie Gyllenhaal -
No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
Garth Brooks -
Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
Warren Farrell
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
Oliver Tambo -
Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
Zebulon Pike -
Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
Randy Wayne White -
Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
Vidya Balan -
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Walt Disney -
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
Zygmunt Bauman
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Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.
Ed Sheeran -
What we want to see is a long term future for Grangemouth.
Jim Ratcliffe -
I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
Hailey Gates -
My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
Edmund White -
I'm from a small farm town in Indiana!
Angela Ahrendts -
That's what writing is: it's imagining that you can make a world. That's what basketball is, too: it's imagining the game as a world.
John Edgar Wideman