John Singleton Quotes

When I was small, in the early '70s, my mother took me to see 'Cooley High.'

John Singleton

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My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete.

Joanne Harris

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The things that block a writer are not the lack of words, but the same things that block all people - the difficulties of life.

Max Apple

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I don't have much of an attention span for TV - I nod off during the basketball playoffs - but when I watch 'Game of Thrones' on On Demand, I'm glued to the set. It's mystical and addictive. Tyrion Lannister, that's my man.

Steve Harvey

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I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

Stephen R. Donaldson

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There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all.

Robert C. Solomon

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I couldn't live without butter. Butter is probably my single favourite food.

Ruth Reichl

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I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. The space is wonderful and the acoustics are brilliant.

Louise Jameson

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When my daughter was ill in Great Ormond Street, it was the darkest period of my life.

Johnny Depp

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Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.

Deepak Chopra

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My perfect day is to work incredibly well in the morning and write something wonderful, then take the dog for a walk and go for a swim in the ladies' ponds on Hampstead Heath or work in my allotment. Then I get tarted up in the evening and go out in London to dinner or the cinema.

Deborah Moggach

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The economic impact of illegal immigration on taxpayers is catastrophic.

Ric Keller

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The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.

James Salter

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