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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You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up. These are things that are okay for cartoon characters to do.
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I think so much of writing is an instinct, or a feel for a scene, or a feel for a character. You have to put into words the word 'tone,' which I think is thrown around a lot and can mean a hundred different things, but communicating that to other people is definitely a challenge.
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Women don't need to have our own little corner of the church where we can feel precious or, alternatively, cranky. In every essential thing, as far as life in Christ is concerned, the differences between men and women are irrelevant.
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I probably have more male friends that talk about us in a way that doesn't thrill me. I sometimes get a bit surprised when females talk like that around men.
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It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
