Aja Naomi King Quotes
If all we remember are good things, then happiness is our baseline, and there's no longer happiness. We need other feelings in order to appreciate others.
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
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In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
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There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
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Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
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The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road of excess leads to a desert … a man with a machine and inadequate culture … is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.
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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
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If all we remember are good things, then happiness is our baseline, and there's no longer happiness. We need other feelings in order to appreciate others.
