Kevin Young Quotes
What a poem can do is provide you this intimate eye that, for the length of a poem and hopefully a little bit after, can provide testimony or a point of view.Kevin Young
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Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
Nat King Cole -
'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.
Hannah Murray -
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
Samuel Butler -
I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.
Patrick Rafter -
I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.
Adam McKay -
When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
Karin Slaughter
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In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'
Gaston Lachaise -
I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.
Samuel L. Jackson -
I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
Ireland Baldwin -
I wash my hair once or twice a week to keep the natural oils.
Camila Alves -
Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards.
Taylor Hackford -
I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York.
Padma Lakshmi
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I was always the new kid, and I got to know the language and the politics of being on the outside, looking in. Never being in the clique - always being a student of the clique, a subversive, and I could look around and identify the other guys who were excluded.
Padgett Powell -
You can never have enough talent.
Pat Riley -
I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
Tallulah Bankhead -
My own agenda is going to be followed, and that agenda is to maintain very good relations with the international community, and Lebanon has to fulfill its commitments.
Najib Mikati -
And there are no stars and that you're never really sure who's doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It's supposed to be quite elusive.
Damon Albarn Gorillaz -
It's usually so fraught when you're taking a picture. I work with an 8-by-10 view camera and there's a, you know, hood that I put over my head, and it's tricky and complicated.
Sally Mann
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In busy companies of men.
Andrew Marvell -
The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.
Franjo Tudjman -
If I must fight, I'll fight; but I prefer not to spit at my enemy beforehand.
Charles Lindbergh -
Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.
George Bernard Shaw -
What a poem can do is provide you this intimate eye that, for the length of a poem and hopefully a little bit after, can provide testimony or a point of view.
Kevin Young