Henry Louis Gates Quotes
We must begin to understand the nature of intertextuality . . . the manner by which texts poems and novels respond to other texts. After all, all cats may be black at night, but not to other cats.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.
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The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.
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I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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The guest to me was always paramount.
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Your body thinks radium is a great thing to pack into bone - where it kills some cells outright and scrambles the DNA of others, causing problems like cancer.
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That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.
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There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.
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Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience.
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The image of entrepreneurship as the province of the unprivileged and un-entitled - the Horatio Alger, rags to riches myth - flies in the face of reality.
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The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.
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I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.
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I think at times of significant stress people are going to be looking for something and they don't always know exactly what it is that they're looking for and they may opt for change even if they're not entirely confident what that change will bring.
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We must begin to understand the nature of intertextuality . . . the manner by which texts poems and novels respond to other texts. After all, all cats may be black at night, but not to other cats.
