Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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The financial crisis revealed important weaknesses in many areas of our financial system.
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Now therefore while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires, Now let us sport us while we may, And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapped power.
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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I've had sleep paralysis.
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When I am teaching, I first give out Tolstoy's 'Childhood,' his first published book. It is so transparent. It gives you exactly what it was like to be on a Russian estate in 1830. You are there. And that is the hope when you sit down and write still, I think - that you can transmit something of what life is like now.
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I do understand how hate eats at the soul and how to purge yourself of hate.
