Langston Hughes Quotes
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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I have always had eclectic obsessions: astrophysics, music theory, the Mongol empire and its history, and the history of the Silk Road, to name a few.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.
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Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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Beauty is not just physical.
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I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.
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The worst part was that I had things I wanted to tell my mother, too many to count, but none of them would go down so easy. She'd been through too much, between my siters-I could not add to the weight. So instead, I did my best to balance it out, bit by bit, word by word, story by story, even if none of them were true.
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Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
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Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.
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I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
