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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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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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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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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Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.
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The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.
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When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.
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In Chicago, if you tell someone you're a writer, they look at you suspiciously - as if to say "yeah, right." In New York, people don't question the idea. If you say you're a writer, that's what you are.
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
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If you say my eyes are beautiful, it's because they are looking at you.
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People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.
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The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.
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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.
