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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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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When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.
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I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.
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We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.
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I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous, and you cannot take anything for granted.
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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
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I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.
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Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
