Ralph Ellison Quotes
I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I love women more than anything.
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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I was on the cover of a lot of magazines, and there were compliments about beauty and fashion and what I was wearing. Man, if you get locked into that, you can lose your freedom as an actress.
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The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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Most people care what people think about them... we all do.
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Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.
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The books that stuck with me most as a child were 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Dracula', 'Hatchet', 'Bunnicula', 'White Fang', and this YA/kids' book called 'Nobody's Fault' where a kid drowns one weekend as friends play around a flooded ditch.
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Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.
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Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable.
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Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.
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Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.
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Up to a certain time I was cutting into things. Then I realized that the thing I was cutting was the cut. Rather than cut into the material, I now use the material as the cut in space.
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I'm very hands-on about social media. That's my voice.
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Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this violence, it only makes the problem worse.
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I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.
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I always laugh when I listen to my old stuff. I was just trying way too much back then. Doing too many harmonies and too many runs and all the crazy stuff. Rapping all funny and animated.
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My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
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I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
