Ntozake Shange Quotes
I think art is a healing force, and if we give in to the joy that can be found in art, then we are able to sustain ourselves in spite of ourselves.
Ntozake Shange
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
Rachel Cusk
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
E. G. Marshall
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Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
Adam Draper
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
Adam Lambert
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Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
Laila Ali
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
Ted Sarandos
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Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
Aaron Hill
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Essentially, if you decide to sell a widget using BitPay, and you sell the widget for $100, in Bitcoin you get $100. And so it doesn't matter what the price does the next minute or the next hour.
Barry Silbert
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Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
Ursus Wehrli
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Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
Og Mandino
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By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are.
Margaret Atwood
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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
Edwin Markham
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Siempre busco alguna luz y siempre en la noche y no alumbrado por ninguna luz.
Antonio Porchia
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Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.
Emily Carr
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Everybody has busy lives, but you can tell people, 'Go outside and look at the night sky. We've been able to demonstrate that every star you see probably has a planet around it.'
Ellen Stofan
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I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.
Freeman Dyson
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I normally don't love green juices, but Body & Eden makes theirs tasty by blending ingredients like avocado and banana with the usual suspects like kale and spinach. Delicious as they are, they're low calorie, and the drink names are catchy: I Have Balance, I Have Energy, and my favorite, I Have Calm.
Gayle King
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Patience is, in and of itself, a great challenge and it often holds the key to breaking through a seeming impasse.
Daisaku Ikeda
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'I’ll tell you,' she said softly. 'But you won’t like it.'He looked away from her. 'I asked for the truth. Whether I like it or not, I have to know.'
Octavia E. Butler
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A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.
W. S. Gilbert
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Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.
Azar Nafisi
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So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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I think art is a healing force, and if we give in to the joy that can be found in art, then we are able to sustain ourselves in spite of ourselves.
Ntozake Shange
