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 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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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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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 do not believe on giving amnesty.
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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.
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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.
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You can't master time, but you have to work your hardest to manage it.
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I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.
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Everything sculpture has, my work doesn’t.
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Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion
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No work-family balance will ever fully take hold if the social conditions that might make it possible - men who are willing to share parenting and housework, communities that value work in the home as highly as work on the job, and policymakers and elected officials who are prepared to demand family-friendly reforms - remain out of reach.
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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.
