Valerie Azlynn Quotes
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I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
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Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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I really like performing for people.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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I like risky stuff.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!
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'Heartbreak House' was a lot of fun for me. I must have missed that day at school. I'd never read it or seen it. It's one of those things that a lot of people are familiar with.
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Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.
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One can't feel old in a day or overnight!
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I like a man with some extra padding.
