Edwin Paxton Hood Quotes
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.
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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
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It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.
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I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
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Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.
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My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor.
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I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.
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I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.
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As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.
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He wanted to be who he was, not the person he would become if he lost the one trait that distinguished him from everybody else, no matter how perverse that decision seemed to others.
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I would never apologize for photographing rocks. Rocks can be very beautiful. But, yes, people have asked why I don’t put people into my pictures of the natural scene. I respond, 'There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.' That usually doesn’t go over at all.
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There is sadness and confusion in our hearts / And the world prepares to fight / as it tears itself apart, it isn't fair
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It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth, that it is even a sign of softheadedness and weakness. The oligarchical power feeds on the sense that we are all individuals, struggling on our own, and ennobled by the effort.
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I don't want people to think that someone gives me something to wear, and I'll put it on.
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Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years, it's a name that the streets taught me, a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment, and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name. [But] it's time to expand and move on.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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Be as careful of the books you read as the company you keep.
