Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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Well, any time you're faced with fame on that level, it's - it can be somewhat unnerving because you're never taught how to manage it and how to deal with it. So you're sort of left out there on your own, trying to navigate those waters for yourself.
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And as journalists we look for differences - differences between countries, cultures, classes, and communities. We're very sensitized to difference, but it's much harder to write about similarities across countries, cultures, classes, and communities.
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Sometimes when I hear commentating, it's sickening. People who never played the game, people who never played in the league have an opinion, and that's all it is. You are here to educate the watcher or the viewer. Sometimes it comes off as personal. I don't ever want to come off like that. My opinion is my opinion about someone.
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But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.
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I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
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It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
