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.Albert Memmi
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
Daniel Craig -
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.
Kate Clinton -
I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
Barbara Eden -
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?
Famke Janssen -
Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
M. F. K. Fisher -
The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
Sam Graves
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It could be interesting doing something with Kanye.
Zara Larsson -
When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
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.
Olivier Martinez -
Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
Fernando Flores -
Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
Barry Mann -
People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.
Walter Kirn
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It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far too important for any such calculations.
Mac Thornberry -
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
Jacob Bronowski -
If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.
Dani Shapiro -
It takes a while for audiences on film to see you as something different if they've seen you for so long as a specific character. It's up to the actor to be like, 'Look man, let's try something else,' even if it's an ultra-low-budget independent. People who rep you will keep going with whatever they can send you on.
Omar Dorsey -
All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.
Jackie Collins -
The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable.
P. J. O'Rourke
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An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day - just before going to sleep - to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day.
Jack Canfield -
Christ should leave us. He is too much with us and I don't like his friends. We have no hope of recovering Christ until Christ leaves us. There is after all something worse than being God-forsaken. It is when God overstays his welcome and take up with the wrong people.
Walker Percy -
It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.
Ian Cameron Esslemont -
Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
Ralph Ellison -
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
Barbara Kingsolver -
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.
Albert Memmi