Henry Louis Gates Quotes

For me, a garden is peace of mind. It immediately takes my mind off the thing I'm puzzling about in my work and gives me repose.

Henry Louis Gates

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• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

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• I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

  

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• I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

  

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• We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

  

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• Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.

  

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• Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.

  

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• If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

  

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• When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone.

  

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• I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.

  

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• I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.

  

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• And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don't.

  

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• The cause of war is preparation for war.

  

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• The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else. I’ve done it my whole career. And the head fake here is that they’re learning to program but they just think they’re making movies and video games.

  

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• Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?

  

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• Pero la vida es corta:viviendo, todo falta;muriendo, todo sobra.

  

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• I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot that is America today. But those who have crossed our borders illegally have broken the law and the law ought to be enforced.

  

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• The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a longer poem, is finished enough to write down. I can hold several lines in my head for quite some time, but as soon as they are written down, the register clears, as it were, and I have to work with what is on the paper.

  

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• I wouldn't mind being in one place for two months or so. It really doesn't sound so bad!

  

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• That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. Its beauty loved gives the right to aspire to the radiance of the sunrise and sunset.

  

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• You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done.

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• For me, a garden is peace of mind. It immediately takes my mind off the thing I'm puzzling about in my work and gives me repose.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Garden