iO Tillett Wright Quotes
It's illegal to be gay in Little Rock - this is such a reality for so many people, but once people get to these bubbles of New York or L.A. or Boulder, Colorado, they forget.
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If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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I can perform whenever I want to, without the pressure of having to.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to write books that change people's lives, change how we think and live and read and write. I wanna write books that are read in 50 or 100 years.
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I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me there is not yelling and conflict.
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I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write.
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It's illegal to be gay in Little Rock - this is such a reality for so many people, but once people get to these bubbles of New York or L.A. or Boulder, Colorado, they forget.
