Paul Gosar Quotes
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'
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I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.
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But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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I'm neither Democrat nor Republican.
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Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.
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There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.
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If I had any humility I would be perfect.
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I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.
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You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
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Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
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When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.
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Should you create a protagonist based directly on yourself? The problem with this - and it is a very large problem - is that almost no one can view himself objectively on the page. As the writer, you're too close to your own complicated makeup.
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It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.
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Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.
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I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I understand, as a woman who probably would have been burned in the marketplace for witchcraft only about 200 years ago, that I need the First Amendment more than anybody does. And that even if I am repelled by child pornography or Bob Guccione's productions, that I have to protect those things, because essentially it's in my self-interest to do so.
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'Can't Stop the Music' has become a cult film. It's kind of shocking to me. People come up to me all the time and say, 'I just saw it!'
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A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
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I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.
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Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.
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I think pressure gets to people when it appears they're trying to cover things up.
