Studs Terkel Quotes

In order for us, black and white, to disenthrall ourselves from the harshest slavemaster, racism, we must disinter our buried history.... We are all the Pilgrim, setting out on this journey.

Studs Terkel

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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.

Kate Christensen
- Time
- Writing
- Day
I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

Ted Turner
- Work
- Money
- Future
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
- Work
- Great
- Experience
I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

P. J. Harvey
- Song
- Player
- Body
What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.

Jack Davenport
- You
- Like
- Look
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

Rainer Maria Rilke
- Relationship
- Conversation