Alaya Dawn Johnson Quotes
The hours I spent attempting to decipher some of Dunnett's more oblique passages opened me to the possibilities of romantic storytelling.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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Some on the Left can be very selective about the kinds of violence they oppose. For some of them, gun violence is a crime to be decried - unless it is committed by an 'aggrieved' victim against what they consider a corrupt institution.
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Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.
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My original dream was to become a singer-songwriter, so I sent a video of myself playing the piano and singing to all the big agencies.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.
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I'm from a small town in North Carolina and went to a small college and didn't think that someone like me could make a living in L.A. doing comedy. I worked hard, especially in college, but at that age, you don't know what's next.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.
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At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.
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In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.
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I have always believed that resistance against repression and violence is possible without relying on similar repression and violence. I have always believed that human civilization is the fruit of the effort of both women and men.
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Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.
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Every two years for Congress, four years for President, illegal immigration comes out as a political issue.
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Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss....
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I was commissioned to write some romantic fiction, and I really liked doing those, and they were very instructive in terms of building characters and plots. But it never felt right for me.
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In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes.
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Pleasure unparalleled, into the ocean of love we fell. Swimming in the timeless currents of pure bliss, fantasies interchanging with every kiss.
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The hours I spent attempting to decipher some of Dunnett's more oblique passages opened me to the possibilities of romantic storytelling.
