Michael F. Easley Quotes
We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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To be the organization that we want to be, we have to have a place to play.
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Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.
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Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.
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People don't listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring country and pop and folk and live music together with a mass audience. I could have sung 'Easy' in a country way but I just sang it how I sing. I think it's a really nice blend.
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Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.
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But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.
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If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.
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I'm happy to be on a winning team. My individual success, that lasts for a short period of time. The success of being a part of the South, of Atlanta, which is now the hot bed of music, that's what's gonna last the longest. The fact that I contributed to planting our flag and moving music to my city, that's what I'm most proud of.
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Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.
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It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
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Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
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I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
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What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.
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We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.
