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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In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit.
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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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What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
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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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The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat.
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'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
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Negotiate with those who wish to talk - and take action against those who create mischief.
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I'm so proud of the community we've been able to bring together, and the notion of women making the first move is no longer taboo; it's no longer a scarlet letter to have a voice.
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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We cannot sit around and talk about the beloved community.
