Albert Memmi Quotes
There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
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Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
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The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
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It could be interesting doing something with Kanye.
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What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does.
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The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
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When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.
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Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it.
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Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
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Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
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When I first met my husband, I needed that helping hand to take the reins and look after me.
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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
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Art, like real estate, is half science, half gut. We go to a lot of art fairs. We have two full-time art experts who help me make all the decisions about how to build the corporate and personal collection and what we put in our developments. We don't let interior designers pick art for us.
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When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will it be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then - that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it. You say you have poets in your world. Do they not teach you this?
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I never understood the idea of canceling a show when you don't like the politics of a specific state.
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There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.
