August Wilson Quotes
I didn't always value the ways black people talked. I thought, in order to make art out of it, you had to change it.August Wilson
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
Mamie Van Doren -
We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor -
I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
Madeleine Peyroux -
Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
Ogden Nash -
I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
Gale Sayers -
I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
Natalie du Toit
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My son's a West Point cadet.
Victor Mitchell -
Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
Hannah Mills -
We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
Adam Davidson -
My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
Dane DeHaan -
Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.
Naomi Watts
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
Jack Dorsey -
Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
Kate Brown -
The darkness of clubs makes me feel much more secure, and you can hide behind smoke and lights.
Oliver Sim The xx -
Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
Karl Rove -
Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov -
Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
Laila Ali
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
Edmund White -
Everyone was saying computers were going to be the future of art; everyone had to do something in this medium. And it was almost some sort of rebellion that I wanted to do these small, intimate drawings.
Marcel Dzama -
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
Boethius -
Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.
Tom G. Palmer -
Try not to miss me when I'm gone.
Jeremy McKinnon A Day to Remember -
I didn't always value the ways black people talked. I thought, in order to make art out of it, you had to change it.
August Wilson