Lauren Willig Quotes
I couldn't make myself write serious; I was surrounded by serious: in monographs, in articles, in my own dissertation prospectus, in the very earnest e-mails of students telling me just why that paper couldn't be in on time, cross their hearts and hope to get an A-minus.

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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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The two things that hit you when you meet someone are, first, how they're visually put together and then, what they tell you with the tone of their voice - whether or not they're to be taken seriously.
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My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
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To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.
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I certainly never saw myself as posh.
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It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.
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We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
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Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.
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I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood. I grew up around drugs, alcohol, prostitution, I grew up around everything, and I think part of seeing that from really young has made me really steer very far away from it in all of its forms.
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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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For the record: I wear makeup. All. The. Time. But I do it in a way that looks natural.
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I couldn't make myself write serious; I was surrounded by serious: in monographs, in articles, in my own dissertation prospectus, in the very earnest e-mails of students telling me just why that paper couldn't be in on time, cross their hearts and hope to get an A-minus.