Wanda Coleman (the L.A. Blueswoman) Quotes
As if channeling Robbe-Grillet, who strove to establish 'new relations between man and the world,' Sesshu Foster's electrifying prose poems tenderly examine then fiercely weave stark-and-broken realities into luminous dream-like narratives on the game of life.
Quotes to Explore
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.
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Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
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Our sense of free will results from a failure to appreciate this: We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises. To understand this is to realize that we are not the authors of our thoughts and actions in the way that people generally suppose.
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I'm trying to see what way I could lead so when the opportunity comes, it won't just hit me in the face.
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I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.
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I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.
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I like BBC news; I like some London news because you can get it earlier then anywhere else. I like Charlie Rose a lot.
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I've always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can't do it any other way.
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I don't want to be a celebrity.
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People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
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We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.
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The world is not checking in with us to see what skills we've picked up, what idea we've concocted, what dreams we carry in our hearts. When a job opens, whether it's in the chorus line or on the assembly line, it goes to the person standing there. It goes to the eager beaver the boss sees when he looks up from his work: the pint-sized kid standing at the basketball court on the playground waiting for one of the older boys to head home. "Hey, kid, wanna play?"
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Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.
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As if channeling Robbe-Grillet, who strove to establish 'new relations between man and the world,' Sesshu Foster's electrifying prose poems tenderly examine then fiercely weave stark-and-broken realities into luminous dream-like narratives on the game of life.
