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.Ernest Gaines
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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.
Gautam Gambhir -
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.
Washed Out -
I open the doors for everybody all the time.
Olivia Colman -
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.
Wally Schirra -
My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
Eddie Marsan -
A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
Wayne Dyer
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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.
Harrison Birtwistle -
I've always been a Nike person.
Wale -
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Barry Commoner -
My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.
Nathan Fillion -
When I was younger and first started watching MTV I loved watching TRL. I loved watching my favorite singers/bands perform.
Victoria Justice -
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.
Beatrice Webb
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
Who doesn't feel commands. He who only thinks what is required in order to win, wins.
Fernando Pessoa -
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.
Alexander Hamilton -
Our family brings a different amount of - not fame - attention.
Khloe Kardashian -
I do not believe on giving amnesty.
Doug Hoffman -
When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience and understanding of America was shaped by having immigrant parents.
Dinaw Mengestu
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There is absolutely a gap in the market for thirty something women and, the more I look at it, the more I feel there needs to be a sense of ease and choice.
Phoebe Philo -
My fans are the best; I love hanging with them.
Blake Shelton -
It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say.
Samuel Johnson -
There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
Ernest Gaines