Annalena McAfee Quotes
One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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The important thing to remember is war does not progress linearly. The future course of events is going to be very difficult to predict with a high degree of precision.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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I don't talk about how old I am because sometimes it can affect parts that you get in Hollywood. I don't believe that it's a necessary element. I feel that I'm a character, and I'm an actor. People focusing on my age instead of the role I'm playing can be a hindrance.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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There are women who are just extraordinary, who are smart and brilliant, sensual women in their 70s and even 80s!
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I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.
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only a matter of time before it broke through our fragile web of denial, forcing us to confront the truth and acknowledge who we are: two people in love – a love that nobody else could possibly understand.
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With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile.
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Jubal had a frame Fashioned to finer senses, which became A yearning for some hidden soul of things, Some outward touch complete on inner springs That vaguely moving bred a lonely pain, A want that did but stronger grow with gain Of all good else, as spirits might be sad For lack of speech to tell us they are glad.
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One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
