Alice Dunbar Nelson Quotes
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.
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You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
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I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
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We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
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What I like least about acting is that when you're only in one place, you're missing the other part of life.
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You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.
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I started out as a singer and a musician, and I was taught that your job is just to get out of the way of Brahms or Arthur Miller or Shakespeare and convey the brilliance that they created.
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I think Eminem should use Auto-Tune.
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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.
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And through it all, calm and impassive, leaning on his elbow and gazing down, Wolf Larsen seemed lost in a great curiosity. This wild stirring of yeasty life, this terrific revolt and defiance of matter that moved, perplexed and interested him.
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I, marry? Oh, I could never bring myself to do it. I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, 'That's a pretty little thing,' after I had finished a picture.
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No Jewish blood runs among my blood,but I am as bitterly and hardly hatedby every anti-semiteas if I were a Jew. By thisI am a Russian.
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Male-female fusion does not create women’s rights. It creates a fusion of rights.
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I have never had to look up a definition of honor. I knew instinctively what it was. It is something I had the day I was born, and I never had to question where it came from or by what right it was mine. If I was stripped of my honor, I would choose death as certainly and unemotionally as I clean my shoes in the morning. Honor is the presence of God in man.
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If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear.
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That is the true joy of being a solo artist. I can do whatever I want. I can go wherever I want. I can show up with my guitar and my song, and it can sound a hundred different ways. That's the freedom of being on your own. The flipside is: That's you on the cover. If it sucks, it's your fault.
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No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
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I wish I had as much athleticism as she has to hop from sport to sport and win everything. Unfortunately I'm only good at ski racing and she still beat me!
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It is our responsibility to leave the people of the future a free hand.
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It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish.
