Septima Poinsette Clark Quotes
My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going to have avote for the oppressed, regardless of whether that oppressed is black or white or yellow or the people of the Middle East, or what. I have that feeling.
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn't exciting, compelling, and competitive, it's not going to generate a lot of interest.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.
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We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.
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My memories are inside me – they're not things or a place – I can take them anywhere.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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I was actually sitting on stage at a press conference one day, and I totally lost touch with reality. I just thought to myself: 'Vin Diesel is sitting next to me, and Benicio Del Toro's on the other side. This is weird, man.'
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I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to travel and write songs and be a good songwriter. It came to me slowly after college.
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The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.
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Woody Allen has a wonderful line: 'Today I'm a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?' That's very important to know - that you have the moment, then you lose the moment. You have to see your chances, you have to take them, and you also have to see when you don't have chances to take.
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Your grandfather is and will always be your hero, your inspiration. He fought in World War II, came home to Little Rock, Arkansas, and worked for 50 years as a mailman in the segregated south. Not once did he get a job promotion in five decades. But he kept working all the same.
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My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going to have avote for the oppressed, regardless of whether that oppressed is black or white or yellow or the people of the Middle East, or what. I have that feeling.
