Langston Hughes Quotes
While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve - and hate will die unborn. Love - and chains are broken.
Quotes to Explore
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
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I had been writing professionally since 1988.
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We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
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If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a great honour.
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Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.
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I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.
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You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
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President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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I think when people talk about improvising it turns into this silly thing like, "Oh there's like a hula hoop there and I'm like 'Oh what's going on here? Is this a really big ring?'"
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While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve - and hate will die unborn. Love - and chains are broken.
