Anne Spencer Quotes

I proudly love being a Negro woman - it's so involved and interesting.

Anne Spencer

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• I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • See
  • Being
  • Far

• So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Real
  • Interesting
  • Thought

• You have to ask yourself if you want to be the kind of actress who's interesting, or the kind of actress who's meant to play the pretty-but-uninteresting wife of a chubby guy on a network sitcom.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Guy
  • Pretty
  • Interesting

• It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Up
  • Interesting

• I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • World
  • Music
  • Interesting

• I'm not driven by being understood.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Being
  • Understood
  • Driven

• On a personal basis, when I decided to become a writer, about the last reason I did it was because I thought I'd meet interesting people and make new friends. But that has turned out to be the very best part.

  

  Vicki Delany
  • People
  • Friends
  • Interesting

• I think there is a chance that Indian writers in America will start producing very interesting books in the years to come.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • America
  • Interesting
  • Chance

• He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Being
  • Defeat
  • Fears

• I've been dictating to my son, who's helping me on his computer. I'm spending a lot of time doing research-I've just got up to 1971, when I went crazy and dived through the window. My life is so full of interesting stories...

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The K Foundation are interesting and lively, a good laugh and they mean it. They are very dedicated to their irrational ideas, which I am wholeheartedly in favour of. …There is an underground again. Probably kill it stone dead to call it that. But I get the sense that there is an underground again, it’s not as self-conscious as it was in the Sixties.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Good
  • Interesting

• I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history.

  

  Bob Ehrlich
  • Life
  • Good
  • History

• It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Great
  • Experience
  • War

• I love kite surfing and mountain bike riding. It's kind of interesting; my kite surfing ability has probably deteriorated with the rate of Kaggle's success.

  

  Anthony Goldbloom
  • Success
  • Interesting
  • Mountain

• It's true as a woman, particularly: the older you get, the parts get thinner on the ground and not quite as interesting, that's for sure.

  

  Phyllis Logan
  • True
  • Interesting

• I went to acting school, and there were twenty other actors in my class who were exceptional. It's hard for anybody to get work. When I was trying to get jobs, I felt a responsibility to be respectful of the opportunities and take challenging things that could be interesting both for me as an actor and for the audience.

  

  Billy Crudup
  • Work
  • Trying
  • School

• Unfortunately, I ended up kind of getting sadly duped, in a way. I haven't had an agent in 10 years, and now I'm doing some of the most interesting films I've ever had an opportunity to play in.

  

  Daryl Hannah
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • Interesting

• If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will be interesting. But as you write it, other ideas occur - better ideas that have to do with what you're writing.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • Up
  • Work
  • Writing

• If flies are a great model, they're a great model for flies. These animals, you know, they're not like us. We don't fly. We don't have a compound eye. I don't think we process sensory information the same way. The muscles that they use are just incredibly much more sophisticated and interesting than the muscles we use.

  

  Michael Dickinson
  • Interesting
  • Model
  • Process

• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• Donny Hathaway's 'For All We Know' is the song that I've sung the longest. It is a beautiful song about living in the moment and appreciating this very second. That is the song I did for my 'Rent' audition.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Song
  • Beautiful

• When my phone pops up with Dierks Bentley, I'm like, 'Oh my gosh!! Okay, wait. He's supposed to be, like, my friend. I'm supposed to be cool.'

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Cool

• We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Best
  • Talk
  • Folks

• I proudly love being a Negro woman - it's so involved and interesting.

  

  Anne Spencer
  • Interesting
  • Being
  • Negro