Fay Godwin Quotes
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout.
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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I get bored easily.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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I think any black woman is a queen. It's just, do you know it? Do you see it in yourself? Do you recognize it, do you abide by that, do you define yourself as that? Based on who we are and what we've been through and how we survive and where we stand, we are on kind of sacred ground. We stand on the backs of our ancestors.
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If you're going to compare a middle-income black kid with a middle- income white kid, and, say, you control for family background, family education, and family income, and if this middle-income black kid doesn't score as well as the white kid on the test, then I say, look, you haven't taken into consideration the cumulative effect of living in a segregated neighborhood and going to a de facto segregated school. You're denying a position at Harvard or some other place to a kid that really could make it. That's why I support affirmative action that's based on both class and race.
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I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
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A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.
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Stories and objects share something, a patina...Perhaps patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed...But it also seems additive, in the way that a piece of oak furniture gains over years and years of polishing.
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Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
