Cedric Price Quotes
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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Sometimes, by using the most over-the-top, ridiculous plot device you can imagine, you get some interesting little conflicts and cool things that you might not otherwise have a chance to explore.
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Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.
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You can't hire someone to practice for you.
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Kids coming out of college want that urban core excitement more and more.
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One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.
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I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
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The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.
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The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
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After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.
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Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.
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It's not very often that you get to come up with ideas and bring your take on the character and then actually have writers, producers, and directors pay attention to it.
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'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.
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I listen to your demo tape and act like I don't like it, six months later you hear your lyrics on my shit.
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Civilization is the making of civil persons.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.
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Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.
