Geoffrey Canada Quotes
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this world as Hoosiers, as Americans, as women and free thinkers.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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There will never be talking pictures.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.
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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
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A lot of the girls I grew up with were pregnant by the time they were 16. I just was lucky.
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Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
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Success is a collective job, and one can't claim the credit for themselves.
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In their search for quality, people seem to be looking for permanency in a time of change.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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It is important to have permanent safe spaces in Harlem.
