Persons Quotes
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I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.
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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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Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.
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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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I was the first person to go to university from my family.
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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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There is a child in all of us, a person who believes in a glorious future.
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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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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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The ADA allows persons with disabilities the opportunity to participate in the world around them.
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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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You have to leave room for the other person's ego.
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A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.
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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 third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
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If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
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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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The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.
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One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.
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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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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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It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!
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Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.
