Ntozake Shange Quotes
Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.
Ntozake Shange
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
Mandy Moore
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If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.
Yao Ming
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
R. Kelly
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
Olivia Colman
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Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.
Val Kilmer
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
Edmund Hillary
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I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.
Gavin Rossdale
Bush
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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
Taiye Selasi
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I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.
Parker Posey
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Muslims must speak out and explain who they are, what they believe in, what they stand for, what is the meaning of their life. They must have the courage to denounce what is said and done by certain Muslims in the name of their religion.
Tariq Ramadan
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I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic.
Ha-Joon Chang
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A Bond girl must be a strong and independent woman, but at the same time charming and sensual. Those opposite qualities combined together make her interesting. She must be strong but at the same time feminine.
Olga Kurylenko
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Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better.
Nancy Johnson
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Most of the best writing, the most creative writing, the most interesting, the most out-of-the-box kind of stuff, is being done on cable, you know, and on the computer. I mean, whatever it is, Amazon or Netflix or something. Because they're just willing to take chances, you know, and there's a market for it.
Ed Harris
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Hey! Shouts Camel. There ain't no woman in the world worth two bottles of whiskey!
Sara Gruen
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The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
Samuel George Morton
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Netflix and Amazon know when you stop and start a program, whether you wanted the whole thing, all of that.
Rick Smolan
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Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.
Ntozake Shange