Marian Wright Edelman Quotes
When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by his youth and energy and promise and were especially hopeful that he might move the country in a new direction on civil rights.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
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You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
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There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
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This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.
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It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth.
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Domain names and websites are Internet real estate.
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When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by his youth and energy and promise and were especially hopeful that he might move the country in a new direction on civil rights.
