John Edgar Wideman Quotes

Too much is made for us; too much is given to us - even those of us who are underprivileged. The poverty is given to us. The difficulties are given to us.

John Edgar Wideman

• Poverty

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• People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • People
  • War
  • Fun

• I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • People
  • Good
  • Food

• I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Good
  • God
  • Bad

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Trying
  • American
  • Find

• I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Day
  • Crazy
  • End

• I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mind

• I don't worry about the things I can't change.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • Things
  • Worry

• If you come every day or every month to my studio, you won't see that much change, but if you come once a year, you'll see big new categories opened up.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Up
  • Change
  • Day

• My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Friend
  • Boy
  • Thought

• My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Parents
  • Learn
  • Grades

• The military people don't like it; the government probably doesn't like it, but the people should know what they're sending their young people into when they permit their governments to declare war and engage in war.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • People
  • War
  • Government

• The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.

  

  Mahavira
  • Important
  • You
  • Environment

• When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Time
  • Want
  • Free

• People think that there is so much money in tennis, but the reality is unless you're ranked in about the top 50 you don't earn much at all. It is hard to support yourself travelling the world, to be away from home most of the year and to pay for a coach to help you become a better player.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Great
  • Why
  • Always

• So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Long
  • Man
  • Impossible

• I hadn't worked for a couple of years so I thought it would be nice to earn some money and pay the bills.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Money
  • Nice
  • Couple

• You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.

  

  Carolina Herrera

• Fight your imperfections imagining that you are the worst, so you can perform as the best.

  

  Valentina
  • Fighting
  • Worst
  • Imperfection

• Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my Deity, and what more can a human soul ask for?

  

  Alice James
  • Experience
  • Soul
  • Chance

• Rationality and the instinct of collaboration have already given us large regions and long periods of peace and prosperity. Ultimately, they will lead us to a planet without countries, without wars, without patriotism, without religions, without poverty, where we will be able to share the world. Actually, maybe I am not sure I truly believe that I believe this, but I do want to believe that I believe this.

  

  Carlo Rovelli
  • World
  • Believe
  • Long

• Too much is made for us; too much is given to us - even those of us who are underprivileged. The poverty is given to us. The difficulties are given to us.

  

  John Edgar Wideman
  • Poverty