Lucille Clifton Quotes
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.
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Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.
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Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
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Every company has to identify what I call its strategic resources, and make sure that it grabs as much of its strategic resources as possible.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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Surround yourself with positive people and you'll be a positive person.
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If I have problems perceiving a color I don't know who to go to – an opthamologist, a neurologist, or a computer programmer.
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I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
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Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of journalists and other content creators by advertisers who no longer have to pay them - only the search engines that parse their articles.
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What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.
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Say it clear, and it will be beautiful.
