April Bloomfield Quotes
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Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.
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You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
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It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.
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The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.
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The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
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I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
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There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.
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It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.
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The love received is the love that is saved.
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You play it the way you always play it. You look for matchups, and you go through your progression, and you throw it to the guy who's most open.
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As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.
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Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
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My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic.
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I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.
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We all have a great deal of admirable qualities, and we all have some that could probably be improved upon.
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Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.
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The Egyptian military and the government of Israel have long had a common interest in maintaining order and fighting terrorism in Sinai.
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I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized.
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I'm a sucker for a packet of biscuits. I can eat a whole pack in 10 minutes.
