Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes
There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from them and will do anything to prevent that.Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
Ovid -
A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
Patrick deWitt -
A novel is not a rant.
Rachel Kushner -
I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
J. Michael Straczynski -
I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
A. S. Byatt
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
Laura Mvula -
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
Barbra Streisand -
I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.
AJ McLean -
Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
Brown Campbell -
There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.
Abhishek Bachchan -
Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
Zoe Kazan
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We always trend set.
Quavo Migos -
Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.
Hans Frank -
If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
Kacey Musgraves -
The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
Adam Davidson -
You don't fight ideas with bombs.
Hamza Yusuf -
I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.
Eddie Mathews
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It's nice when you are with a guy who can find the humor in touch situations and be comfortable enough in his own skin that he can laugh at himself.
Mikaela Hoover -
I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
Katey Sagal -
To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
Barry Marshall -
The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
Mark Twain -
When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a country music singer, but I never dreamed I'd be a member of the Grand Ole Opry.
Trisha Yearwood -
There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from them and will do anything to prevent that.
Ta-Nehisi Coates