Roxane Gay Quotes

Something outrageous, in the truest sense of the word, is always happening. On social networks, we're always voicing our reactions to these outrageous events. We read essays and 'think pieces' about these outrageous events. We comment on the commentary. We do this because we can.

Roxane Gay

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I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

Jessalyn Gilsig

LoveTimeCollegePaintingArts

If you're open with people and provide context for the decisions that your making, customers will stick with you.

Andrew Mason

PeopleDecisionsYouWillOpenYour

We provided complete protection to witnesses - right of attorney, right of record, right to cross-examine, and open hearing if they desired. Only Mr. Lane asked for an open hearing.

John Sherman Cooper

RightOpenLaneHearingProtection

I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.

Stanley Tucci

TimeHotelLongLong TimeOldUp

Everything I've written I see in a very precise way and I hear in my inner ear.

Sue Miller

WayEverythingSeeI SeeHearEar

As a black man, so often you grow up suppressing your emotions and sensitivity.

Russell Hornsby

ManBlackGrowYouEmotionsGrow Up

I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on those big Nashville songwriters to send me some great songs, too.

Luke Bryan

WorkLoveGreatWaitingWork Hard

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.

Colin Quinn

LifeWorthYouSayLivingFirst

I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but I think, at this point, people read into my work out of habit. Or I'm just very, very smart.

Cindy Sherman

WorkHabitSmartPeopleThinkDoing

I was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything.

Brian May

MoneyQueenHappyNeverRightUp

My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.

Bob Gunton

VoteFirstPrimaryBobby Kennedy

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.

Algernon Blackwood

HeartBrainControlThoughtLong

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