Ntozake Shange Quotes
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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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.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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I wanted to write for all children, even those kids who might see language as a threatening thing, even if English is their second language.
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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
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I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.
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I remember my father, when I said I was going down to Little Rock to work for Governor Clinton's run for president, he thought maybe somebody needed to check the medication cabinet. He thought somebody was playing around with it. He had never heard of him, he said. I said, 'Well, I think he's going to be the next President of the United States.'
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During slumber's magic reignOther times shall live again;
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In an amusement park, you can go on a roller coaster that carries you up and down, or you can go on another kind of ride that whirls you around in a circle. Similarly, there are different sorts of entertaining experiences in the theater.
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Where there is a woman there is magic.
