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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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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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 worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.
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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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My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.
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I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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The real axis of social change is not horizontal, but vertical. We don't need a whole bunch of people gathering to think shallow thoughts together. What we need is for as many people as are ready to gather and think deep thoughts together.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.
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'Abu Ghraib is unbelievable in the innocent times of 1961. That we would torture people that way and on the instructions of the President of the United States and his highest legal advisers, torture is okay, they said. Go for it, fellas. If we can't renounce that and remove it from office, then the Constitution doesn't work anymore.'
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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.
