Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human.
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, award shows. I just don't want to say something stupid. But as soon as I step out on that stage, or as soon as I show up to a date, it all goes away, and I just have a great time with whoever I'm with.
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
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I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.
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One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.
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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
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I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don't have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete.
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Thomas Tuchel is a coach who can work in the long-term.
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If I wanted the ticket to be a $200 ticket, I'd have made it a $200 ticket, but I don't want it to be that.
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'They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.'
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Success is just being able to do what I love for a living, spend all my time doing it, connect with fans, and continue that for a long f - king time.
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I'm the type of person who doesn't hope, dream or wish for things. I work and work and work.
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Now is the time for all Alaskans to come together and reach out with our core message of taking power from the federal government and bringing it back home to the people.
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Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human.
