Lucille Clifton Quotes
I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.
Lucille Clifton
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
Pat Brown
I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
Pardis Sabeti
We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
Ian Williams
Battles
Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
Nancy Pelosi
My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.
Gail Devers
Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
Malcolm Gladwell
When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
Karl Marlantes
The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
Barbara Corcoran
Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
Laura Dern
The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.
Nate Powell
Your mind is what makes everything else work.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
Taylor Dayne
It's weird: you do a TED talk on something, and people think that you suddenly have a lot of answers around the topic.
Chris Milk
I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
Zoe Kazan
Sweden was once a very homogenous society, but no more. For decades, people have been coming into Sweden from all over the world, and that's changed the way we cook.
Marcus Samuelsson
I just go out and play my game. Just making sure I keep doing those little things, like playing with toughness, that's just me.
Draymond Green
All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.
Edouard Rene de Laboulaye
I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired.
Lucille Clifton
