Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
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I am very lucky to be surrounded and guided by an incredible support team comprised of my family and agents.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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And that's the way it is.
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'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.
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If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it. Because it'll never look good. Any hesitation in the fitting room and just walk away.
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If I get to spoil myself, I'm going to DQ. I always had it growing up, so I stick to it.
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Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.
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You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is.
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The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
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My hair's naturally dirty-dishwater light brown. Ugly.
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To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing – they're all just language.
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At this point, I don’t need my records to be Number One or sell as many as this person or that person. That’s not fundamentally important - I don’t believe that sustains you.
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I have travelled and been pretty much a one man operation for most of my career, and I think it'll continue to be that way.
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I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense.
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Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.
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I've had a lot of folks tell me that my songs weren't quite country because they didn't really sound like anybody that had come along and done it before me. I felt a little out of place for a while.
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That frankly was not in people's minds because there is a world market in oil.
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I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.
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I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.
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I've seen, and liked, 'Insecure' and 'Atlanta.'
