William Allen White Quotes
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
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I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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I don't like to play the victim.
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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I remember Tom Stoppard saying to me when I came out, 'I feel so sorry for you, because you'll never have children.' These days I would say, 'Well, why not, Tom?'
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Shakespeare was writing about his time, and it was a time when women were beginning to demand a voice, demand a say in their lives for one reason or another, mainly to do with the economics of the time.
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I guess I'm a really analytical person, but when I'm writing, all that stuff goes behind a screen. Analysis and taking things apart is really important and really interesting, but it's the direct opposite of creating something, which has to do with taking things and putting them together and hoping to make something unique that's more than the sum of its parts. And you can't do that with analysis, you can only take things into smaller and smaller pieces.
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Dip your pen into your arteries and write.
