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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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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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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When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
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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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As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book.
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Consumers online expect dialogue, so pairing your brand with relevant and passion-driven topics is one of the best ways to ensure that you are engaged with key audiences.
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Country music is all about telling stories, and we're just telling a little different one.
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A successful poem says what a poet wants to say, and more, with particular finality. The remarks he makes about his poems are incidental when the poem is good, or embarrassing or absurd when it is bad - and he is not permitted to say how the good poem is good, and may never know how the bad poem is bad. It is better to write about other people's poetry.
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Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
