Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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My wife Gwenaelle prepares an 'energy shot' for me for breakfast. It's a mix of linseed, cereal, and raisins, with fresh fruit like kiwi. She also adds yogurt for added texture and some pollen and honey for an energy booster.
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People are strange. We're all morticians. Hey, what's on TV?
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People knew that Murdoch's media estate in the UK was too powerful and it was doing very unpleasant things.
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I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much.
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Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.
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A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.
