John Edgar Wideman Quotes
I lived with my mother and father and brothers and sisters some of the time; some of the time, my mother and father were feuding, so my mother would take us to live in my grandmother's house.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
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I am a big music nerd.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.
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There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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I actually believe that some residue of discrimination would lessen, because it's my view that there is a certain percentage of the white population that stereotypes and makes assumptions about African Americans because they don't inject the history of slavery and Jim Crow into current incarceration rates, or crime rates, or poverty rates, or what have you.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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There are places that I've always wanted to go. First I went to Africa, and when I was there I realized there were places in Africa I really to wanted to visit: The Congo, West Africa, Mombassa. I wanted to see the deep, dark, outlandish places.
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I get up at the same time every morning.
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And why were the voices there, but he knew why and he knew they would always be there, the voices, knocking at his door, taking over his house.
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I lived with my mother and father and brothers and sisters some of the time; some of the time, my mother and father were feuding, so my mother would take us to live in my grandmother's house.
