Lillian Hellman Quotes
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.
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On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.
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I talk about Beyonce too much. I am a diehard.
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There is nothing unhealthy about educating youngsters about nutrition.
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I get the beginning. I get the end. Then I write the middle. That's how I do it.
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Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.
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We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
