Cam'ron (Cameron Ezike Giles) Quotes
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.
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I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.
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I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.
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Deep inside himself, in a place he didn't often go, where he kept the things he didn't like to think about but dared not forget, he knew that she was still alive somewhere, and somehow she was watching what he did, or at least looking in on him from time to time.
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This game is something Australians really look forward to.
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We all retire one day. If we want to, if we don't want to.
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A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap... I was just in the right place at the right time.
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Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?
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In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their dinner in silence with the oil lamp between them, there was a secret joy in such simplicity, such retrenchment.
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When our sailors in the Persian Gulf accidentally strayed into Iranian waters, that could have sparked a major international incident. Some folks here in Washington rushed to declare that it was the start of another hostage crisis. Instead, we worked directly with the Iranian government and secured the release of our sailors in less than 24 hours.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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In medieval times the habit arose of expressing a man's wealth, no longer in terms of the amount of land in his estate, but of the amount of pepper in his pantry. One way of saying that a man was poor was to say that he lacked pepper. The wealthy lacked pepper. The wealthy kept large stores of pepper in their houses, and let it be known that it was there: it was a guarantee of solvency.
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I think that anybody who is going to be the standard-bearer, the spokesman for the progressive movement, in the context of a presidential race, has got to learn to master the language and really get their finger on the pulse of how people are feeling. I think that's really important.
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People only go to the places they have visited first in their minds.
