Ayana Mathis Quotes
I couldn't imagine a book with many characters in it and one of them not being gay. It would have felt like a glaring and problematic omission for me. But I also wanted to write that character as a person, not just a gay person.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
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To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it between its legs, it's this fascinating deconstruction of the myth of the West.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.
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I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.
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'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.
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I had people in 'Entertainment Weekly' talking about how they wanted to throttle me because they thought I was too disgustingly cute, as if that were my fault, you know, as if that was my fault, not the fault of directors and producers and such.
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In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.
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Because the Republicans are never going to turn on Trump so long as he still has his base, and he will continue to have his base so long as this idea that he is standing up for workers, it remains intact. And the only way that that gets eroded is if it isn't just about Russia all the time, but is also about those economic betrayals.
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Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.
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Having done 'M. Butterfly,' I'm conscious of the choices women make with their clothes and makeup on screen.
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I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.
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Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
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I became famous almost before I had a craft.
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Religious apologists complain bitterly that atheists and secularists are aggressive and hostile in their criticism of them. I always say: look, when you guys were in charge, you didn't argue with us, you just burnt us at the stake. Now what we're doing is, we're presenting you with some arguments and some challenging questions, and you complain.
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Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
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I'm for all kinds of gay rights. I'm almost like a gay man myself.
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When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left.
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I couldn't imagine a book with many characters in it and one of them not being gay. It would have felt like a glaring and problematic omission for me. But I also wanted to write that character as a person, not just a gay person.
