Richard Powers Quotes
We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.
Richard Powers
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I was sleep-deprived, and I misspoke.
Hillary Clinton
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Eventually it comes to you: the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
Lorraine Hansberry
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I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building.
Jason Silva
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I definitely want to do more movies, and I'm also a writer, so I have a few screenplays that I'm working on, one of them based off my one-woman show that I used to do in New York. Two of the screenplays I've written by myself, and then I'm also working on one with my writing partner, Tom Riley, who's in London.
Eliza Coupe
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I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun of myself first so they would get distracted and just laugh. I was pretty brutally picked on for a while growing up. It was always the really pretty girls, the hot girls and then there was me. So I had to do something to get any sort of attention.
Eliza Coupe
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If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that character, the possibilities are endless. When you have such a defined character, I feel like I can actually read the phone book and make it funny.
Eliza Coupe
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I would love to do a musical. Something old-fashioned, probably.
Lauren Ambrose
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It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
Whitney M. Young
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You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.
Ferdinand de Saussure
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There's no racism with the Internet.
ASAP Ferg
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We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.
Richard Powers