Haile Gerima Quotes
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I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.
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It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him.
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If we are to reach certainty and true autonomy of realization, we need to be willing to be heretics. What's more, we need to become universal heretics, not believing anything that we do not know from direct experience, beyond stories, beyond hearsay, and even beyond the mind.
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People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future.
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A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.
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Some of the subject matter is a little less weighty. When we were writing for Mr. Show, we were talking about how is this going to stand up to the test of time. Every little piece had to be this brilliant comedy jewel.
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She remembered how she had felt cleaning out her father's clothes, wanting at once to hold on to every dirty handkerchief and musty page of sheet much, and yet wishing she were anywhere else on earth, free of it all.
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You are positive, creative and happy to the degree to which you eliminate negative emotions from your life.
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Making ski racing fun and engaging for kids and families is an exciting opportunity and a real passion of mine.
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A true servant of Mary cannot be lost.
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I take no credit at all. This is a talented team with a real desire to follow a specific style of play.
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I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.
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We have enough of a critical mass reach where it economically makes sense to run a national broadcast campaign.
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I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist -- a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community -- that is, if his career goes on to what is called a success.
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Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed
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This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.
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When the system does not recognize me I'm not devastated.