Ernest Gaines Quotes
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from reading novels. The understatements in the tenor saxophone of Lester Young, the crystal, haunting, forever searching sounds of John Coltrane, and the softness and violence of Count Basie's big band - all have fired my imagination as much as anything in literature.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
Dak Prescott
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
J. A. Konrath
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
Gautam Adani
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
Lata Mangeshkar
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
Uzo Aduba
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'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
Karan Johar
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
Natalia Vodianova
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We must recognize and keep in the public consciousness the significant contributions and sacrifices Americans of every community have made that have helped forge the greatest country our world has ever known.
Tammy Duckworth
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
T. S. Eliot
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I am an inventor of music.
Igor Stravinsky
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Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it.
Laura Hillenbrand
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Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.
Beatrice Wood
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Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.
M. Ward
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
Vera Wang
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Dice il proverbio, ch'a trovar si vannoGli uomini spesso, e i monti fermi stanno.
Ludovico Ariosto
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I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative.
Janet Evanovich
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A lot of DJs don't realize they're here today and gone tomorrow. They're literally taking jets to every show. It's crazy how much money they're spending.
Diplo
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
James D. Watson
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Σάφ' εἰδότας χρὴ τῶνδε θυμοῦσθαι πέρι·τὸ γὰρ τοπάζειν τοῦ σάφ' εἰδέναι δίχα.
Aeschylus
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I feel like I always describe myself as a late bloomer. My first album, in my mind, was that I had a few songs I needed to take from incomplete demos to working with someone else and finishing them.
Albert Hammond, Jr.
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I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.
Josh Lucas
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Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.
Louis Leakey
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I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from reading novels. The understatements in the tenor saxophone of Lester Young, the crystal, haunting, forever searching sounds of John Coltrane, and the softness and violence of Count Basie's big band - all have fired my imagination as much as anything in literature.
Ernest Gaines