Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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Ben Roethlisberger is a proven winner in athletic competition. But the measure of a true leader is how they conduct themselves 24/7, not just during a winning touchdown drive or a goal-line stance. Leadership isn't something that gets switched off because the game clock expires.
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Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.
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I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.
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I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.
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Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe.
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The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds.
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Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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I carry themes in my mind for years before I will try to compose them. I've got themes that will last me now 'til I die.
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Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but think that my parents were in error thus to exclude the imaginary from my outlook upon facts. They desired to make me truthful; the tendency was to make me positive and sceptical. Had they wrapped me in the soft folds of supernatural fancy, my mind might have been longer content to follow their traditions in an unquestioning spirit.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
