Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
Everybody thinks that an important book has to be a big, long book.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Quotes to Explore
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
Ouida
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
Danai Gurira
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Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.
Valerie Plame
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The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
Barry Gibb
Bee Gees
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My parents have seen me flirt with girls in front of them, so they're kind of used to it.
Lucky Blue Smith
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Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.
Alain Robert
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Working on an adaptation is not as satisfying, because it's not your original work: you're interpreting. With 'L.A. Confidential,' I loved the book. In that case, I felt I was guardian of the work, staying as true to the novel as I could. I've since met the novelist, and he loves the movie and the script.
Brian Helgeland
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I was 17, and a friend said, 'Man, you've got to listen to this song,' and he played 'Man to Man.' From there on, I was hooked on country. Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Clint Black. Every show that came through America West Arena, I was there.
Dierks Bentley
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We then, who are this new soul, know Of what we are compos'd and made, For th' atomies of which we grow Are souls, whom no change can invade. But oh alas, so long, so far, Our bodies why do we forbear? They'are ours, though they'are not we; we are The intelligences, they the spheres.
John Donne
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Everybody thinks that an important book has to be a big, long book.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
