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Mavis Staples Quotes

I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: July 10, 1939

Topics

Family Mother Voice Strong Side Get

There's a horrible fallacy that exists in the popular discussion of fiction these days: the idea that a successful central character need be 'likeable' or 'sympathetic'. It is surely more important that they be human, no? More crucial that they breathe?

Character Important More Human Need

I grew up loving monsters. I'm just a total monster geek. When I was a kid, I had the Aurora monster models, and I would make them. I loved the Universal horror movies and the Hammer movies. I just had an affinity for them.

Loved Loving Movies Horror Kid Up

At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle.

Good You Bad Matter Write Top

There is a place and a time for philanthropy, and there is only so much money you can give away.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

Time Money You Place Philanthropy

My father was a doctor in Moravia, in the south of the country. There were a number of Jewish doctors in the hospital there, and at a certain point - almost too late, really, but in time - they were all sent overseas by their employer.

Father Time Doctor Late Country

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Time Me Impossible Speak Laugh You

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

Louis D. Brandeis

Man Government People Law Become

My view is that we cannot be ruled by fear. When we do that, we are not making ourselves see. We are not thinking things through. We are not looking at what works.

Fear Looking Thinking View See

I write every single day.

Day Write Single Every I Write

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

Me Mom Guitar Stop Said Nothing

There are almost no sports within which mortal accidents are not a reality.

Dietrich Mateschitz

Sports Reality Accidents Within

Radio voices have a solid, even texture.

Radio Texture Voices Solid Even

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