Cleveland Sellers Quotes
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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I have a cat named Dandelion.
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We must be our own before we can be another's.
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My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.
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What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.
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It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.
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For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts.
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There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.
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Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.
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If you just work on that one thing that's, like, important to you, that has been supportive of you, who has been loving you all this time, if you are able to see that, then that is your 'best love'.
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Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.
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'Orange Is the New Black' was my home show. I knew the set; I knew everyone there.
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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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I did nothing to look the way I look. The genetic cards that anyone is dealt are not in their control, so to take pride in my looks would be a mistake. And besides, in L.A. there's always someone more beautiful!
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Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.
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Light-skinned black people are seen to be closer to white people. The allegiance to lighter-skinned people has operated in a very destructive way that we have internalized ourselves inside black communities. You look at many of the prominent black people in this society who have been able to do well. Many have been lighter-skinned.
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People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose.
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We cannot sit around and talk about the beloved community.
