Laurie Graham Quotes
Not so very long ago, certainly well into the Thirties, a lady companion was a normal feature of life for widows or lone spinsters.
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When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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When I am behind and I am looking ahead and there is that line in front of you, of that guy, of winning and losing, then I really hang it out there and take big risks to make the speed up, and then I'm pretty good at passing.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.
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If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
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You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.
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I have three friendships that have lasted a long time, but everybody else has come and gone.
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Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.
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Not so very long ago, certainly well into the Thirties, a lady companion was a normal feature of life for widows or lone spinsters.
