Danzy Senna Quotes
I wrote the first draft of the New People quickly but it had been percolating a lot longer. It's a hard question to answer because I'd been working on another novel for years and when I gave up on that, this one came very easily. But I think the work had been going on a lot longer than the actual writing.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
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I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
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I mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.
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There is no conclusive proof of Unidentified Flying Objects flying over India-China border.
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I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.
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I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.
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I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat.
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The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
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The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.
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It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.
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I don't remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don't even remember my first kiss.
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Clamour can be stifled, but how avenge oneself on silence?
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Have you ever thought that the only ugl things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains.
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The Baltic republics have invented something totally new. Do you know what? They use the word 'non-citizens' for people who have been living for decades in the territory of Baltic states and have been deprived of a number of political rights. They cannot participate in the election campaigns; they have limited political and social rights. Everybody keeps quiet about it, as if this is the way it should be. Of course, this cannot but cause a certain reaction.
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I wrote the first draft of the New People quickly but it had been percolating a lot longer. It's a hard question to answer because I'd been working on another novel for years and when I gave up on that, this one came very easily. But I think the work had been going on a lot longer than the actual writing.
