Wadada Leo Smith Quotes
When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.
Wadada Leo Smith
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
Vincent Bugliosi
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
Irwin Shaw
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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
Daniel Boone
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As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.
Damon Knight
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
Rachel Platten
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
Gale Gordon
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
Octavio Paz
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
Maj Sjowall
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Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
Isaac Hanson
Hanson
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
Samuel Alexander
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It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!
Naomi Watts
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
Mal Peet
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New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are the four seasons, which are distinct, well-established and similar to those in Lyon, where my family lives: when it's snowing in New York, a week later it will be snowing there.
Daniel Boulud
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I grew up with horror. My dad loves movies, and he passed a lot of them on to me. There's something so fun about them.
Maika Monroe
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I want to get better as an actor, to keep trying to work harder, trying to discover something different. In some ways, it's a pretty frightening experience. But normally, I do tend to walk against fear and hope that I'll be able to survive.
Forest Whitaker
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I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists.
Kim Gordon
Sonic Youth
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When you or your loved ones escape repression, you often find yourself committed to ensuring that freedom prevails.
Nazanin Boniadi
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When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.
Wadada Leo Smith
