Nella Larsen Quotes
Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, though I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.
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I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.
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Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach.
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I'm gluten intolerant, so that automatically cuts carbs from my diet.
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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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Just watching TV as a kid, for a long time I thought, as a young kid, obviously when I was, like, 4 or 5, I thought that people lived in the television.
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People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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I want to play Lena Horne because I've always been fascinated with her. Her talent was astounding and more than that, her life story is incredible.
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I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.
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Six imams removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix are calling on Muslims to boycott the airline. If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.
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Those who had alleged that a million civilians were dying from sanctions were willing, nay eager, to keep those same murderous sanctions if it meant preserving Saddam!
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A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive.
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Although I've made notes for things and even written synopses sitting in trains or on park benches, for the complete composition of things I need absolute solitude, preferably an empty house.
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I have always had confidence in my ability; I knew I'd get a chance coming here. That's one of the main reasons why I signed for Tottenham.
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We don't woo our wives with clubs. We don't leave old folks on ice floes. And maybe the time has come to quit diving into rip tides to save people we don't know. We've outgrown a lot of survival-of-the-fittest strategies, and risking our lives for strangers might be one of them.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.
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Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, though I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.
