Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.
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Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.
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Sports of every sort had always appealed to me.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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Where are Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton? They don't speak for Black America, and they don't speak for me.
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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
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Always that tyrannical love reaches out. Soft words shrivel me like quicklime. She will not allow me to be cold, hungry. She will insist that I take her own coat, her own food.
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When you make movies, you have to be preoccupied with the social problems, otherwise there is no point in making a movie. To have a story, you need a social problem. Not necessarily a problem, but something to get the idea for a story, otherwise there's no story.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
