Rumaan Alam Quotes

I do think that I have a sensitivity to the depictions of maybe all minorities in literature. And I think that the experience of people who look like me is so rarely captured in big, mainstream American fiction that you tend to sort of empathize with any character of color who pops up.

Rumaan Alam

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Plays have a celebratory nature that no other form has. Theater always meant celebration, a birthday, a reward for good grades. I felt at home in a theater. I loved being part of an audience. All the rules - the audience has to see the play on a certain date at a certain time in a certain place in a certain seat.

John Guare

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There's no purer feeling in the world than being scared.

Stephen Graham Jones

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I've made 'The Pilgrimage' - where I actually had to speak Gaelic - and I was shooting in Belfast as well.

Tom Holland

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I've always thought that jazz needs to be heard by a wider audience in Puerto Rico. I want to put together a series of free concerts in the small towns - one with Miles Davis music, another with bebop, maybe Duke Ellington. I want younger people to see what is possible.

Miguel Zenon

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I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.

Michael Rady

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I had an idea, I was passionate about it and I had to work hard to turn that into a big success and more products.

Lori Greiner

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Fear is contagious, and those who wish America to become a faith-based society are doing their best to spread it.

Judy Blume

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It caught us by surprise when people started calling us a boy band because we'd always considered ourselves pretty serious musicians.

Jay DeMarcus

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We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.

Jonathan Sacks

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I love to give money away. I don't know if it makes my children and grandchildren all that happy.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

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There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

Conrad Hall

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If I get a chance to act, I will act. And then I'm usually the happiest person around.

Anne Archer

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