Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone except the people I report on and the people I work with.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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Anyone should be able to read comics.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.
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It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
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I want to work with anyone who's passionate about telling a story. I obviously have a list of people I really love, but it's a really long list.
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The way I look at music, what I'm interested in is not necessarily creativity - in many ways I think creativity is overrated, actually. What I think is important is authenticity. I want to hear music that has the resonance of the people. I want to hear music that is an amplification of them. Because then, I can experience the people. But because the music has become so institutionalized, everyone is learning and regurgitating the same material in the same way.
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Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
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If you think something's stupid, it probably is.
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But Patsy, she was a great, great girl. And Brenda Lee is a wonderful person, and her mama Grace. I've known those folks for years and years and years.
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The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone except the people I report on and the people I work with.
