Isabel Wilkerson Quotes
My parents absolutely did not think of themselves as part of the Great Migration. They knew they were part of a great wave. No one really talked about it in those terms or gave it a name.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
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I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
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Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.
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I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.
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I spend a lot of time in prayer. God doesn't always show up on my time, but he always shows up!
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She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death.
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In general, the human race is still a young organism.
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Technology is permeating every single thing we do... And to the extent that we can better expose our young people to all the different ways that technology can be used, not just for video games or toys, we're planning for the future.
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If an apple was magnified to the size of the Earth, then the atoms in the apple would be approximately the size of the original apple.
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Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
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My parents absolutely did not think of themselves as part of the Great Migration. They knew they were part of a great wave. No one really talked about it in those terms or gave it a name.
