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'm constantly preparing. Material hits me; I'm always writing. I go back and listen to my shows and just prepare and put my set together. But the day of, I like to have some downtime. A nice lunch is important for me.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Together

• When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Change
  • Tiger
  • Englishmen

• I shut my eyes, and I force myself to feel myself. You never really think of what it’s like to be in your body, but even with my eyes shut, I can feel the boundaries of my skin, real or not. Everything that’s me is contained inside this body, and I feel it all. The heartbeat I cannot control. The mind that may not be mine. I am here, in this moment, in this body. All that I am—maybe not all that I ever was, but all that I currently am—is right here.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Control
  • Force
  • Boundaries

• What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel.

  

  Plutarch
  • Dance
  • Elephant

• For most people who have or who do identify as or with [song] Straight Edge, I feel like for most people, they're just trying to do the right thing.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Trying
  • Song

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

  

  Marie Brenner