Harry Dean Stanton Quotes
The band I've played with for 10 or 12 years now, we've been all over, but we mostly play in LA.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
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We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
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When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
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Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.
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I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it.
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I love animated movies in general. I like making them.
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Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery was abolished there hardly thirty years before it was abolished in Cuba.
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Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.
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My mom was an artist, and she had this amazing ability to transform everything into something beautiful.
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For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
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People actually tell me that I'm living my dream. And I'm like, 'It's a little more nuanced than that.'
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My formal speaking career began before a group of 10 third-graders. We drew pictures of my home in Rwanda. I told them about my mother's huge garden and our mango tree. The lessons I taught were simple. Play nicely. Take care of plants. Take care of people.
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Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.
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I don't judge people. I don't even judge people on 'The Voice.' I'm a coach. I'm there for constructive criticism and to aid and abet and discover new talent.
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I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me.
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I'll sometimes go and do a sunbed, but never spray tan.
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The biggest misconception about us is that we're just a rock band. We think our music is a cross-section of many genres; a hybrid of what the six of us have grown up on.
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The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.
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The band I've played with for 10 or 12 years now, we've been all over, but we mostly play in LA.
