Margot Lee Shetterly Quotes
During World War II, hundreds of thousands of people actually - and among them many African-American - migrated to the Hampton Roads area because of the job boom that was happening. It was a place where you could get stable war jobs.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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Yes, iD is a machine vision and sensor browser for the physical world. That's what we have been working on with Coca-Cola, Verizon, Bank of America and Disney to launch content when an image is recognised.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.
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Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
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Forgiveness is God's command.
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The historical legacy of 'The Best American Poetry' is they've had very few editors who were not white. They've had very few instances where they've selected poems by non-white poets.
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Science, literature, and common sense tell us that the self is a fickle thing, subject to revision in real time, and that the chasm that exists between any two people exists inside each and every one of us.
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One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
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Most game music is based on loops effectively.
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During World War II, hundreds of thousands of people actually - and among them many African-American - migrated to the Hampton Roads area because of the job boom that was happening. It was a place where you could get stable war jobs.
