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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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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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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A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science.
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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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She became politically conscious thanks to Studs Terkel and the radio. She started reading all the books we brought home from college and was a great fan of Noam Chomsky. She was a real lefty and yet was not able to meet her dream of becoming an artist. She got drafted into motherhood big time - seven kids - and that wasn't the life that she had planned. So she opened the path so that I could be the artist that she wanted to be.
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I try not to have a day pass where I don't read something from the Bible. It's like my sustenance to me.
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.
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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.
