Ralph Ellison Quotes
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'
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I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?
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Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but a mange eating away at you, it is nothing but an exile.
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I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'
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Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.
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On the one hand, society needs a common faith and vigorous institutions with the power to coerce; and on the other, the individual as a human soul or as the bearer of a new and possibly saving heresy, must be free. It is difficult enough to reconcile these two needs, but the problem holds another hazard: the need of action under the pressure of time.
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A guy comes home from college to find his mother sleeping with his uncle, and there's a ghost running around. Write it good, it's Hamlet; write it bad, it's Gilligan's Island.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
