Arthur Ashe Quotes
Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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I guess I don't believe that death is the end.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.
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I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
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Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
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Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
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In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings.
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I don't know any Beatles songs. My dad never listened to Elvis or Sting or Bowie. Any band name that's on a t-shirt, I probably won't know their music, like AC/DC or whatever. I don't know what that is. As a kid, I would sing along to artists like Tania Maria.
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I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
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Everyone wants something real, something that was created to invoke a positive feeling.
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When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and it became a kind of addiction. I was very shy when I was at school, but the plays seemed to give voice to my feelings.
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Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
