Ralph Ellison Quotes
The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
Karen Bender
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
Mallory Ortberg
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
Adam D'Angelo
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One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.
Ted Lyons
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
M. Night Shyamalan
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I can paint in jail.
Jack Kevorkian
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
H. L. Mencken
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
Zaha Hadid
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
Kaitlin Olson
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All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
Lascelles Abercrombie
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
Nadia Comaneci
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I think I'm like a free spirit.
Bai Ling
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
Hanif Kureishi
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
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I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.
Bebe Rexha
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
Walter Lang
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When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.
Karen DeCrow
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All my life, I have been a positive thinker... I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event - no matter how tragic - one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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I'm tired of being the bad guy all the time, saying 'no' to people I like.
Dawn Steel
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While I had no intention of ending the series after 'The Spellmans Strike Again,' I did close many doors in that book and, with the fifth one, I was opening a lot of doors and not finding anything behind them and then opening another door and another until I found something. It was a while before I found my stride.
Lisa Lutz
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We made history when President Obama appointed Sonia Sotomayor, a proud Latina, the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. And as the President likes to say, 'Every single one of them wasn't just the best Latino for the job, but the best person for the job.'
Charlie Gonzalez
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I'd really like to show women my age - who've had children grow up or lost husbands or retired after working all their lives - that there are options. There are choices. We don't have to just sit around and be invisible.
Katherine Helmond
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The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
Ralph Ellison