Livy Quotes
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
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Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
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Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.
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When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'
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India always inspires me.
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As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.
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It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.
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I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.
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Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
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We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating.
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Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.
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If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.
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All I've done is my job, and I intend to continue doing it. And I'm not especially worried about the criticism that comes from the bench.
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I'm very committed to stable and adequate funding for education.
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In a normal movie, you'd never see one guy talk for an entire page, whether good or bad.
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I am never so happy as when I am really engaged in good earnest, & it makes me must wonderfully cheerful & merry at other times, which is curious & very satisfactory.
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I'm not an ascetic.
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I've done a lot of assignment work in my life, and the only way you can do it is to make it your own as quickly as possible, and then you give it back.
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The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves...
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I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.
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Potius sero quam nunquam.
