Hugh Evans Quotes
History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.
Quotes to Explore
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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Of course the job has a lot of glamour. But it really is about being smarter than your average bear. Your mind is your best weapon. It's great when you're a good shot with an AK-47, but it's about being clever.
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They hate whom they fear.
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Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.
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My daily diet consists of basically anything I think looks tasty, whether that's pizza, sushi, burgers, quesadillas. I like everything.
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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
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I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.
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I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.
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I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.
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Failures can be God's little whispers (or) a full earthquake in our lives because we didn't listen to the whispers
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There's a secret sauce in California, and I hope people pay attention to it.
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Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
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For me, hip-hop was a mirror when young-adult books were not. I could see myself in a Nas song more than I could see myself in a book.
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History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.
