Persons Quotes
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Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.
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Soul ties. The thing that can make you hear an old-school slow jam and think of somebody you haven’t seen in years. Soul ties. The thing that makes old people who’ve been together for years finish each other’s sentences. Don’t you wish mama had told you when you were young that, when you lie with someone, you lie not just with her body but also with her soul? And whatever condition the other person’s soul is in, you are guaranteed to take a piece with you—whether you want to or not. Instead of being amazed at her booty, you should have focused on her mind.
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When I'm writing, especially when I'm writing in first person, I don't think about the characterization, or how they are going to express themselves, I just express my own approach to these things. I think most writers can never divorce themselves from their private lives and personas; they are the ones that are writing. And the more they remove themselves from their own persona, the more, perhaps, mechanical the work becomes.
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I'm so fascinated with the study of people and why they are the way they are. That's my research and my archaeology, if you will, when I get a role. I'm so excited to attack a part from every angle of what makes a person a person.
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Every night I try to look at the audience and treat every audience differently. It's almost like it's a single entity or a person. I always try to treat it like a conversation and allow it to happen naturally in the same way that you would engage in conversation.
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I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.
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I was the first person to go to university from my family.
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For some reason, my main movie, Lady Sings the Blues, to me really isn't me. I really can let go of Diana Ross when I see the movie. I'm really objective when I'm watching it. I liked that movie so much. That movie was like magic so that when I'm looking at it I'm really not seeing myself, I'm seeing the actress. I'm seeing another person, not the me of me.
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There is a child in all of us, a person who believes in a glorious future.
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The ADA allows persons with disabilities the opportunity to participate in the world around them.
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You have to leave room for the other person's ego.
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The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
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One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.
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It was so easy to disown what you couldn't recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling. The only person you can be sure to control, always, is yourself. Which is a lot to be sure of, but at the same time, not enough.
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A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
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There are persons who seem to have overcome obstacles and by character and perseverance to have risen to the top. But we have no record of the numbers of able persons who fall by the wayside, persons who, with enough encouragement and opportunity, might make great contributions.
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I think [nancy Reagan] was a very controlled and controlling person, because she was so scared all the time and because she had such an inner sense of panic.
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The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.
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I've been a social gospel-er and a person who sees politics as a central dynamic to the encoding of religious rhetoric.
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Don't be what you're told to be. Follow your own path. Be your own person. Don't get held down by everyone else.
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It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!
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Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life.
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One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.
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If you have to sit the whole evening with the most famous person in the world and he is a goddamn bore, you will want to run away and if you sit with a person who's completely unknown, but he's fascinating, you are delighted.
