John Edgar Wideman Quotes
Basketball can give us a kind of mystical awareness. Everything seems focused and in balance.
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For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
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I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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What would you do in order to marry Sophia Loren? I think anyone would become French to marry Sophia Loren. Love was more important than nationality. The cultural heritage of that country and my parents is so interlaced that it really doesn't matter that a piece of paper tells them they're French.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.
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I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.
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I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
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The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.
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Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing.
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Some people live life and others talk about it.
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I don't like to direct myself.
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Noah is the battle of justice versus mercy. In Genesis it says that Noah was righteous in his times. You think you sort of know what righteous means, you know, if you listen to a lot of Bob Marley. According to all the biblical scholars we talked to, righteousness is the proper balance of justice and mercy. If you think of that, as a parent, you know that if you have too much justice and you're too strict, you destroy a child. If you have too much mercy, as a parent, you destroy a child as well. A big part of this movie is Noah finding mercy for man.
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Basketball can give us a kind of mystical awareness. Everything seems focused and in balance.
