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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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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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.
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True thusness is without defiling thought; it cannot be known through conception and thought.
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Obama ran as sane and decent, as though we were electing a mood, and not necessarily a set of policies. Unfortunately, Obama has governed the same way - and misread the mood, which is all there is, really, because being crazy and stupid is all we're really good at politically any more.
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Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.
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Was in our ear a lot more this week than he's ever been since I've been here.
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It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer.
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People are scared of the unknown.
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My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
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If I can't have a revolution, what is there to dance about.
