Ralph Ellison Quotes
Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.
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I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.
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There's no one who has been living for centuries.
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I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
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Border security is a complex issue and will remain a top priority during the 2007 legislative year. As Congress works to fix this problem, I will continue to push for strong measures that beef up security at our borders.
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I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.
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It should be only a part of my life, but it isn't. I have only one thing: my work.
Nastassja Kinski -
And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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I'm not one of these people that needs to feel loved. I don't need to see my picture everywhere.
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I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.
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One year, I was a go-go girl for Halloween, and I got all this glitter eye shadow, my hair was poufy with braids, I was wearing all these different colors and fake eyelashes that went all the way up to my eyebrows. I totally enjoy the whole Halloween feel.
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I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately I feel like it all the time. I am writing for hours.
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I have not been keeping up with it as much as I should have maybe, because it’s certainly-This and Paris Hilton are the kind of issues that seem to get a lot more attention than maybe some of us think they deserve.
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I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see.
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Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.
