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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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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People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.
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The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.
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Anybody would be a vast improvement over Obama.
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As a children's author, you get to advocate for reading and writing in general, in a way an adult author might not be able to. It's a really interesting dance we do to get literature into the hands of young people and to help them to become literate and become readers; we want them to grow up reading and continue to do so when they're adults.
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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.
