Verdine White Quotes
The magic and stuff was all in conjunction with the story of the pyramids. You can't just do that kind of thing if it doesn't make sense, tell a story. That was all part of our Afro-centric consciousness.
Quotes to Explore
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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My party is committed to a federation.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
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I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.
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I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.
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I was doing a movie, 'Diana,' and I pulled aside the guy who was making the nose for Naomi Watts and said, 'I'm about to do 'Cyrano.' So he did various Photoshops of different looks that might work. I was really against any kind of 'Pinocchio' theater thing. The way that it's described in the play is this disfigurement.
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What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.
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The magic and stuff was all in conjunction with the story of the pyramids. You can't just do that kind of thing if it doesn't make sense, tell a story. That was all part of our Afro-centric consciousness.
