Ernest Gaines Quotes
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
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Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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I've always been a Nike person.
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There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.
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When I was younger and first started watching MTV I loved watching TRL. I loved watching my favorite singers/bands perform.
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If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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Who doesn't feel commands. He who only thinks what is required in order to win, wins.
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If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.
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Our family brings a different amount of - not fame - attention.
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I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.
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What is the alternative to peace? A catastrophe for both peoples [Palestine and Israel].
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There is a wide range of opportunities for us and we see a main part of our strategy as being a company that supplies products across a range of different end applications and indeed we have quite a wide product portfolio which we enhance each year.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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I got scouted for modeling on the street. I'm such a tomboy - still am. I just never thought about modeling before, but I thought, 'Ooh, interesting, similar world, perhaps it's a way into something.' Then, I was on my third photo shoot ever, and Adam Leech from 'Downtown Abbey' saw me reading poetry and asked me to recite some.
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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 by reading novels.
