Nat Hentoff Quotes
Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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I'm a normal girl. I don't go out much, and I don't know what is enjoyment.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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So many actors started on soap operas. So yeah, I'd graduated Julliard and done some theater. I've done a few guest spots on TV but nothing that long-term. I did a little 'E.R.' back when it was on, and a pilot for 'Cold Case.'
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If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'
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When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.
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San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.
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I know all the books of the Bible.
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I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.
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America itself has been through so many challenges since that fateful day back in 1776. Our culture has been a roll-up-your-sleeves-and-go-to-work culture.
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I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.
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By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.
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Novels are pirated all the time, but it's hard to imagine that you're at work and you open up the attachment that your brother sent you and it's the new Phillip Roth novel.
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Anything with no head is dead, and anything with two heads is a freak.
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Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.
