James A. Baldwin Quotes
The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.James A. Baldwin
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I'm a little angry in life.
Vincent Cassel -
When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs.
Washed Out -
I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
Adam Beach -
I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
Fareed Zakaria -
But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
Victoria de los Angeles
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
J. G. Ballard -
I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
Jack White The White Stripes -
We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
Laura Esquivel -
If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
Eckhart Tolle -
I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
Nate Parker -
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
Karl Lagerfeld -
At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.
Gary Johnson -
For me, Melania represents America. We're all reluctantly married to Donald Trump now. She is a vehicle to making fun of him. I can't do a Donald Trump impersonation, but I can impersonate her.
Laura Benanti -
I never responded to teaching.
Orlando Bloom -
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard
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I like to open new doors and blaze new trails through the jungle and all that whatnot. What keeps me goin' all these years is changin' it up.
Les Claypool -
When I came to Philadelphia in the late '80s, it was going through a very difficult time.
Tamron Hall -
I don't have the time or the desire to gaze at my navel.
Brigitte Bardot -
I write all the time, whether I feel like it or not. I never get inspired unless I'm already writing.
Janet Fitch -
You know the way trees break through the canopy in the rainforest and they go from having this tiny column of light to having all this light - the Internet is kind of like that.
John Collison -
The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
James A. Baldwin