Danzy Senna Quotes
I'm felt I was writing about love and desire and community and belonging and grief and a whole host of other issues. But race is never far from the surface.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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You just have to go to bat and take a swing. And if you're not right for a part, or it goes to a British man, they may remember that you showed up, knew your lines and were good. And maybe they'll call you in for something else.
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Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
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I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord's sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop of blood.
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I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
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The name Jack was given by an American tourist.
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I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.
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I'm as pure as the driven slush.
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Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.
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When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
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There is too much negativity on Twitter, and I want to stay from it. I don't have anything intelligent to say. Whatever I want to say, I will say it through my movies and interviews.
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Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number - Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you - Ye are many - they are few.
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Ta vertu met ta gloire au-dessus de ton crime.
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I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.
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The Intelligence Community Assessment concluded first that President Putin directed and influenced a campaign to erode the faith and confidence of the American people in our presidential election process. Second, that he did so to demean Secretary Clinton, and third, that he sought to advantage Mr. Trump.
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I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall. But I don't wear them any more because you don't have to wear heels to be beautiful. I can't even remember the last time I wore heels.
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I'm felt I was writing about love and desire and community and belonging and grief and a whole host of other issues. But race is never far from the surface.
