Andre Leon Talley Quotes
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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I'm a really good driver. I've been driving since I was very small, and I do like driving fast. I remember the first time my dad taught me that when you go into a corner you change down then put your foot right down on the way out. I'm very competitive about driving.
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I had a very comfortable life, but there were people who spent their life in prison, whose families were destroyed.
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Syria may appear to be a small country, but it is just the type of entangled conflict that can lead to a world catastrophe. It does not take much imagination to see Syria as the Sarajevo of the 21st century, leading to world war.
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Your protagonist is your reader's portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world you're creating. They don't have to be super-educated, they just have to be mentally active. Keep them looking, thinking, wondering, remembering.
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Senator [George] Mitchell is a man of many talents and he's swift on his feet, but one would not think of him as 'dancing with the stars.' And we had this great rock 'n' roll fund raiser.
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There is room in today's world for men to wear dresses.
