Henry Louis Gates Quotes
So, the kind of precious memories about being black for my generation won't exist for my kids' and grandkids' generations unless we preserve them through fiction, through film, through comic books, and every other form of media we can possibly utilize to perpetuate the story of the great African-American people.Henry Louis Gates
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
Yehuda Amichai -
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde -
My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
Harrison Ford -
The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
Carlo Ratti -
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama -
I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
Viggo Mortensen
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I watch a TV show called 'Shark Tank.' It's one of my favorite TV shows. It's basically self-made millionaires who have either come up with their own business or clothing... I came up with the idea of designing clothes.
Jacob Dalton -
Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.
Vince Staples -
Since Baby’s birth, she had learned that the first few months of motherhood were about fatigue and leakiness.
Nalo Hopkinson -
To lead a better life, I need my love to be here. Here, making each day of the year, Changing my life with a wave of her hand. Nobody can deny that there's something there.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
The thrill of doing 'Good People' is I love those kinds of stories, and I'm good at them, and it's wonderful to see that material given to a terrific director and a terrific cast.
Kelly Masterson -
I don't understand some of the music I hear on MTV or the radio, because they don't mention the times we live in. They have nothing to do with nothing.
Daron Malakian System Of A Down
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I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.
Jamie Farr -
I try as much as possible not to utter a single line that I don't believe in.
David Oyelowo -
I've been really fortunate that my concert career has taken off hugely. I can make a living. I enjoy performing in front of a live audience, and I can do something different every time. Sometimes I'm with a quartet, sometimes I'm solo, sometimes with a symphony, and I get to go to different cities and meet different people.
Brian Stokes Mitchell -
With any character I do, I do my due diligence with research.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje -
I'm very detail oriented. I think that's why people enjoy my memoirs - because I tend to remember everything.
Jen Lancaster -
As we mature, there are people with whom we run out of steam, but there are also those with whom a little straight talking would prove rewarding.
Mariella Frostrup
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I thought a bit of poetry might be interesting - I even write a few lines myself. I composed a short poem for my mum's 70th birthday recently. When I recited it I saw the glint of a tear in her eye...although I guess it wasn't the quality of the poetry was that making her cry!
Iain Dowie -
I think our grandparents were Victor Frankenstein. I basically am the kind of deeply unnatural creature that Mrs Shelley instinctively dreaded. I not only eat her sacred cows but I eat them with ketchup. While I take her point, I think that transgressive monstrosity and tampering with the life force are both a lot more fun than she suspected.
Bruce Sterling -
I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.
Carter Burwell -
Some people blow their top, but all people blow their bottom.
Evan Esar -
So, the kind of precious memories about being black for my generation won't exist for my kids' and grandkids' generations unless we preserve them through fiction, through film, through comic books, and every other form of media we can possibly utilize to perpetuate the story of the great African-American people.
Henry Louis Gates