Walter Mosley Quotes
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There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.
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I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.
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I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.
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Time was God's first creation.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.
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People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.
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The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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It's essential for a fighter to go separately and just focus on training away from everybody else.
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One of the reasons why 'Here's The Thing', Alec Baldwin's series of podcasts with 'artists, policymakers and performers', is so good is because he's a big name, so the guests have to deliver.
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I have to remember I am a defender first and do my job there first and foremost.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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In the midst of hardship, it was the music that restored my soul.
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Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
