Henry Louis Gates Quotes
Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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When you hit your 40s, you begin to take notice of the effects of aging because people that you know begin to die of heart attacks and tumors, so we take notice of the effects of aging.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
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I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.
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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
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I've always wanted to be a professional golfer and I'm glad that came true.
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I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.
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It felt amazing to be one of a handful working female directors in Hollywood.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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Self-preservation is an important thing to me.
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I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.
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Every human mind you've ever looked at … is a product not just of natural selection but of cultural redesign of enormous proportions.
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If you speak English, you speak at least a part of more than a hundred languages.
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One of the things I have always enjoyed about Scientology is their proactive approach to journalists who are covering them.
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I've liked all the directors I've worked with a lot. And the ones I like best are the ones that have really good taste about what take was best.
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I love 'House of Cards.' I would watch Kevin Spacey read the phone book.
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I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.
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You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.
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Until this week the one thing I knew about the Twilight saga was that it had vampires in it, which was enough to put me off. I didn't realise it was a romantic fantasy aimed at teenage girls. Turns out it's possible to be put off something twice before you've actually seen it.
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I'm very specific about scripts that I like. I don't have a master plan or, like, a game plan. I don't have a chart that I'm following or anything like that. I'm very much playing it by ear. Certain things just happen and it's undeniable, you just go that way. But I don't have a specific path I'm following, I'm just playing it by ear.
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I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong; I have judged and been judged; I have passed through birth and death, Joy and sorrow, heaven and hell; And in the end I realized that I AM in everything and everything is in me.
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All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.
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Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.
