Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
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Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch.
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Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our family has enjoyed travel in England and because they are written with an economy of words as if they were written with a pen instead of a computer. Penelope Fitzgerald is a favorite.
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I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning.
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It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.
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If you look where kids are spending time on the Net, they may have all the information in the world, but they're not accessing it.
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No man may make another free.
