Ernest Gaines Quotes
I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
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I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.
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Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?
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Hamm: If I could sleep I might make love. I'd go into the woods. My eyes would see … the sky, the earth. I'd run, run, they wouldn't catch me.
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When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the evening we'd start from one end of the band and just go along. The lead singer would change all the time. That's the first time that I actually managed to put it into a record.
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I talk to all the creative directors today, and they take me aside, and they say, 'You know, it must have been great back in those days when you could do anything you wanted.' I say, 'Huh? Excuse me?' I mean, we fought. In the '60s and '70s, you fought wars with clients, and you have to continue fighting wars to do great work.
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I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community.
