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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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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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 Berserkers have been with me for about forty years, and we're not done yet.
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Kids should speak to each other. They're horrid to each other online, they bully each other - they should shut up and stop it. The problem with social media is there is too much freedom. It's too much, too young.
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My parents were in the book business, my brothers still run the Dutton bookstores in Los Angeles, and I've been interested in editing books and journals all of my life.
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Is there a secret? Yes. Anaïs Nin and Pauline Réage and Anne Rampling and Erica Jong all knew it. E. L. James knows it. It is the secret behind all of our writing. And our reading. Arousal starts in the mind. And grows in the mind. The brain is the most erogenous zone in a woman’s body. That is our secret. And it is what we share.
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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.
