Albert Meltzer Quotes
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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
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Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.
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It was really fascinating for everyone involved in 'Fargo' that Marge Gunderson became the iconic character she did. I think it was something about the cultural zeitgeist and what was happening with women in the workplace.
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I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.
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I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.
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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.
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In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.
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A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.
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I remember feeling enormous pressure because I didn't want to be Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple was Shirley Temple, and I didn't ever feel like I could live up to that.
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Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.
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If you look at my bookings, they've gone down each season. That's something I'm trying to keep improving. On the pitch you don't want any silly bookings.
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I'm an honest guy.
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If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.
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No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.
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The hour-hand of life.
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Mostly I try to be the best example of me that I can be.
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As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.
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Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.
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I do not know whether to be delighted or outraged by the fact that Literary Theory: An Introduction was the subject of a study by a well known U.S. business school, which was intrigued to discover how an academic text could become a best-seller.
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If I can't have a revolution, what is there to dance about.
