Anne Spencer Quotes
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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Just to confirm to all my followers I have had a hair transplant. I was going bald at 25 why not.
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This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people.
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Towards the end of summer 2013, when school ended, I decided to re-download all of my social media channels and make videos again. The next day, I woke up and had 9,000 followers. I did the same thing the next day and woke up with 54,000 followers.
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If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?
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I'm LeBron, baby. I can play on this level. I got some game.
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'I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong again.' p76
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I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
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I want to make sure that teenage girls know that if you decide to keep your child, you have to get an education. You have to have a plan A, B, and C. Make sure you have a good support system. If all those things are not in place, it's going to be very, very hard - very, very lonely.
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Venture capital is always wanting to go up market.
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I really want women to appreciate their power. It was obvious to me that lots of people are comfortable with power, and they see what it can do, but women's expression of it was never as comprehensive as it could be. It seemed like an amazing gift that Oxygen could give.
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I love 'Sex and the City,' but it's also wonderful that there's something else other than 'Sex and the City.'
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That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.
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Like most writers, I read deeply into the genre in which I write.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: 'Beach Blanket' was one of the most important experiences of my whole life. It's part of me.
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Hopeless of all he dared to hope so long, The music born within him dies away; Even the song he loved becomes a pain, Full-freighted with a yearning all in vain.
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One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
