John Edgar Wideman Quotes
Basketball can give us a kind of mystical awareness. Everything seems focused and in balance.John Edgar Wideman
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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.
Hanna Rosin -
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.
Faith Hill -
We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
Rachel Shelley -
People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
Fedor Emelianenko -
The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
Ted Turner -
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.
Jacob Batalon
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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.
Ian Mckellen -
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.
LaToya London -
At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
Nathaniel Parker Willis -
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.
Candice Bergen -
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.
Edoardo Ponti -
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.
J. B. Pritzker
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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.
Ted Allen -
I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.
Victoria Justice -
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.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
Eamon de Valera -
I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
Zubin Mehta -
We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy 'cause we have a meal provided to us every 6 hours every day and craft services. The hard part is staying fit under those circumstances.
T. J. Thyne
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Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.
Marilyn vos Savant -
I always work from outline and almost always write out of sequence. It just works for me.
Paul S. Kemp -
I was born into a family of gospel singers. My early ambitions were many. I was going to be a ballerina. I almost had that one come true until I tore a tendon, so I transferred from my toes to my throat and that's where the talent settled.
Dionne Warwick -
We are a country of laws. When you take that away, the consequences are enormous.
David Grann -
Growing up, I realized as an actor I had to figure out how to use my platform in order to give back as well and use that spotlight to shine, or at least to balance that light and to try to shine light onto the other issues that were happening in the world.
Serinda Swan -
Basketball can give us a kind of mystical awareness. Everything seems focused and in balance.
John Edgar Wideman