Deke Slayton Quotes
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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My full name is E.G. Marshall. I am known by no other.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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I'm a very lucky girl.
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Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
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Men are visual creatures.
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I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.
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I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.
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My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house.
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Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It's not a statement; it's just a language that we use to communicate. It has its own flavour; it's got its own slang. People laugh. People like it. They like us being open.
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I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
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Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.
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I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.
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If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'
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I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.
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You're on your way, Jose!
