John Osborne Quotes
Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.
Quotes to Explore
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Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
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Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.
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I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
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Anytime you hear different things - whether it's trade rumors or people saying you're not living up to your complete potential - you're obviously going to get ticked off about that.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.
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Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
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My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.
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Dan Henderson has been a fighter for a long time, and he's been a champion in many different organizations.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.
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I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.
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A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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You can always tell what you believe by what you are getting.
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L.A. has always had a ton of creative business people, but tech has always been trumped by Hollywood. Now Hollywood is realizing it needs to be smarter in tech. Hollywood is finally crossing over, and it's really going to charge L.A. to be the next tech center.
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An old woman I loved very much when I was young - the wife of Jean Villard - she's just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That's all she does - she almost doesn't recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We're the ones who are suffering. She's not.
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Having a child, particularly your first child, is such a life-changing moment. Nothing can really prepare you for that.
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I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.
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Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.
