Marie Brenner Quotes

Traveling in India gives you a chance to observe a renaissance.

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• When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a black man and I wasn't pretty, I knew I would have to work my butt off to be the best that I would be, and to be noticed.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Work
  • School
  • Pretty

• Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Say
  • Disappointed
  • Nonsense

• The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • World
  • Rest
  • Artist

• Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Language

• 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.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Love
  • Job

• It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Day
  • Religion
  • End

• When I became governor, I vowed to restore the public's trust.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Trust
  • Public
  • Restore

• In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Age
  • Courage
  • Bravery

• I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Great
  • Music
  • Listen

• Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Quality
  • Used
  • Decade

• It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

  

  Ovid
  • Believe
  • U.S.
  • Let Us

• What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Love
  • Soil
  • Cultural

• In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It's your time to gestate in the cocoon of becoming.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Time
  • Opinion

• I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Remember
  • America
  • Freedom

• For me, being part of the WTA tour is a privilege. Every day I wake up, it's a privilege to be able to go outside and do what I love. It's a privilege to be able to make my own hours, even though they're long, but I make them.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Love
  • Being
  • Privilege

• I'd love to have my own TV show, in the way that Julianna Margulies has 'The Good Wife,' or a lovely ensemble show, like 'Six Feet Under.'

  

  Lara Pulver
  • Good
  • Wife
  • Like

• Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Death
  • Speak
  • Tradition

• But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.

  

  Sally Ride
  • School
  • High
  • Space

• I have so many friends who just have big dreams, and they work their butts off every day to try to make these things happen, and so long as we keep that mindset and remember others, I think we'll be good.

  

  Jennette McCurdy
  • Good
  • Work
  • Long

• The class of big capitalists, who, in all civilized countries, are already in almost exclusive possession of all the means of subsistance and of the instruments (machines, factories) and materials necessary for the production of the means of subsistence. This is the bourgeois class, or the bourgeoisie.

  

  Friedrich Engels

• I am more than ever convinced that communism is on the march on a worldwide scale which only America can stop.

  

  Arthur H. Vandenberg
  • America
  • Stop
  • Communism

• I think changing the Democratic Party platform at the convention is a great place to start. It should include expanding Social Security, a $15 minimum wage, and breaking up too-big-to-fail banks on Wall Street - among other Sanders priorities.

  

  Ben Wikler
  • Convention
  • Social Security
  • Democratic Party

• Traveling in India gives you a chance to observe a renaissance.

  

  Marie Brenner