Roxane Gay Quotes

Throughout any given season of 'The Bachelor,' the women exclaim that the experience is like a fairy tale. They suffer the machinations of reality television, pursuing - along with several other women, often inebriated - the promise of happily ever after.

Roxane Gay

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WomenExperienceRealityFairy Tale

I think people know what they're getting with my name, because they've seen my specials on Netflix.

Anjelah Johnson

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You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African-American, so we all got a little something in us.

Tracy Morgan

YouGrandfatherUnderstandIrishUs

Single matches, I feel, have always been the ones where I can shine more. Three-way, four-way, you have to split your attention with some other guys, and it can be totally great, but when you get into a battle royal with 20 or 30 other guys, it's just so different from what your agenda is when it's one on one competition.

Rob Van Dam

GreatCompetitionShineBattleYou

In the IPL, you are often single-handedly responsible for the fortunes of your team. It makes you more responsible as a player.

Rohit Sharma

TeamYouMoreResponsibleYour

I think I would love a shot at remaking 'The Philadelphia Story,' as daunting as it is. I still think it's fantastic. I love the '30s comedies because they're allowed to be both comic and elegant, and the women are so complicated in them.

Michael Patrick King

LoveWomenStoryThinkComplicated

When 'American Slang' came out, everyone was like, 'This is the next big band in the world, and this is blah blah blah Bruce Springsteen Junior and blah blah blah,' and I was just like, 'I don't know what that means. I don't know. We'll see.'

Brian Fallon

WorldAmericanKnowBandSeeOut

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

Bruce Springsteen

LifeAmerican DreamRealityAmerican

I tried playing the drums, and I could play 'Boys Don't Cry' by The Cure.

Brian Posehn

PlayCryPlayingDrumsCureTried

As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening.

Alice Walker

FearTodayTruthHopeBeautiful

Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.

Algernon Sidney

LiveTogetherEveryoneWithoutRule

My government will make efforts to realize the farming potential of rain-fed and dry land areas by ensuring healthy participation by all stakeholders and convergence of various government sponsored programs.

Pratibha Patil

GovernmentPotentialHealthyLand

It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.

Peter Ackroyd

CharacterVisionHistoryGreatStory

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