Muhammad Ali Quotes
Boxing is a stepping stone just to introduce me to the audience. If I was still in Louisville, Kentucky and never was a boxer I still might get killed next week in some kind of freedom struggle and you'd ever hear the news.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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I don't like possessions.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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Being queen is overrated.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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I want to have freedom with everything I do.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't - if you are wise - talk down to any audience.
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Gender is used as a control mechanism that's just wrong. Gender is never anything to struggle with; gender is something to play with. Once you're free of the rules that all these hierarchical, oppressive systems place on gender, that's the tricky part.
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When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish I were writing a nonfiction book where all the facts are laid out and I don't have to be so much at sea.
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Boxing is a stepping stone just to introduce me to the audience. If I was still in Louisville, Kentucky and never was a boxer I still might get killed next week in some kind of freedom struggle and you'd ever hear the news.
