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John Edgar Wideman Quotes

What I wanted to do in talking about basketball in 'Hoop Roots' was retrieve the game as something to participate in, not to watch.

John Edgar Wideman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: June 14, 1941

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Roots Basketball Game Talking Watch

Our embedded reporters during the war agreed to guidelines established by the military.

War Military Reporters Our Agreed

The right raw materials can... double or triple the protective power of the immune system.

Power Right Double System Raw

My natural mother passed away from cystic fibrosis when I was a toddler, so I feel a great deal of empathy for people who are struggling with disease.

John Lloyd Young

Mother Great Empathy People Feel

I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me.

Love Music Me Feel Laugh Fall

Comedy as a genre is the one that has given me maximum success, and I do broadly get associated with this genre. I thoroughly enjoy comedy, especially because it is inherent to my personality.

Riteish Deshmukh

Success Personality Me Comedy Enjoy

The lyrics are what I work on the hardest, but I'm not trying to make a perfectly clear message or anything like that. In fact, I'm usually trying to avoid saying something too directly, because usually that rings false anyway.

Work Saying Trying Anything Rings

I have a strong and strange character, and I've rarely met directors who knew what to do with this character. One of the few who did was my father, and in the theatre, Arthur Nauzyciel.

Father Character Theatre Strong Knew

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

Life Alone Prayer Stress Calm Learn

I don't believe that the U.S. needs to take a police role. I think it needs to support African nations that have said they want to become a part of the solution.

Police Support Believe Think Said

The irony of the political rise of the plutocrats is that, like Venice's oligarchs, they threaten the system that created them.

Chrystia Freeland

Political Rise Irony Venice System

I'm artistically critical of my own work.

Brandon Victor Dixon

Work My Own Own Critical

We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.

Community Justice Service Tomorrow

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