bell hooks Quotes
Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.bell hooks
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
Kate Atkinson -
I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson -
In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
Barry Bostwick -
I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
Ram Shriram -
I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
Washed Out -
My journey has been that of a character actor.
Harry Carey, Jr.
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I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.
Oscar Levant -
I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
Nathan Bedford Forrest -
It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.
L'Wren Scott -
You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.
Carlos Slim -
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb -
The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
Saint Ignatius
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I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.
Venus Williams -
I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.
Zach Braff -
I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.
K. Flay -
Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
Eddie Bernice Johnson -
Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and rarely glancing in the direction of a screen of any kind.
Nancy Gibbs -
I don't golf. I've never golfed. I will never golf.
Malcolm Gladwell
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New York's definitely got my heart.
Caitriona Balfe -
But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.
Samuel Pepys -
The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.
John Moody -
They say everything in the world is good for something.
John Dryden -
I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the tendency throughout politics in Northern Ireland, is to always look back, always look at what was said a long time ago, instead of looking forward.
Peter Hain -
Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.
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