Ishmael Reed Quotes
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In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.
Jack Zipes -
Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
Iain Duncan Smith -
I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.
Vagit Alekperov -
I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
Orhan Pamuk -
I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.
Floyd Skloot -
There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
Magnus Scheving
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I look a lot like my father and his mother.
Sade Adu -
Many Africans succumb to the idea that they can't do things because of what society says. Images of Africa are negative - war, corruption, poverty. We need to be proud of our culture.
Dambisa Moyo -
There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just makes the job so much - maybe 'easier' isn't the right word, but because you know your boundaries, you can just play within those boundaries much more, so it's much more fun to do.
Samantha Harvey -
Up-tempo or slow tempo, I don't feel that one is better than the other.
Imelda May -
I get on well with models, and I like to treat them well.
Carine Roitfeld -
Almost all of "Julie" was shot on location in Carmel, which is a lovely resort town a little south of San Francisco. My co-star was Louis Jourdan, whom I liked very much. An amiable man, very gentle, very much interested in the people around him; we had a good rapport and I found talking to him a joy . . . We would take long walks on the beautiful Carmel beach, chatting by the hour.
Doris Day
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It never ceases to surprise me, the people I get to work with. I'm in a French film with Sandrine Bonnaire? I adore Sandrine Bonnaire. I'm doing a picture for Robert Redford? The Sundance Kid? I have to pinch myself sometimes.
Kevin Kline -
Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.
Arthur W. Pink -
My mom and father are extremely proud. They love it when I don't die. I've done so many movies where I've died that their first question when I book a job is, 'So, are you going to die in this?
Michael Ealy -
One experienced minute sometimes teaches us more than a lifetime.
Wladyslaw Sikorski -
I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.
Kate McKinnon -
I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
Adam Driver