Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.
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Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of activism, oftentimes it makes a difference if something is women-focused. It's likely to get the attention of women much more easily.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
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I wouldn't be where I am without my dad. He's a genius.
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I work better when I'm juggling projects. Nothing worse than watching someone really embrace what they're doing if they love it too much.
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It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.
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System Of A Down/ Mars Volta Tour Dates Announced.
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We cannot agree that an act of plunder which threatens the livelihood of many nations should be allowed to succeed. And we must make sure that the life of the great trading nations of the world cannot in the future be strangled at any moment by some interruption to the free passage of the Canal.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
