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Roxane Gay Quotes

Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine.

Recitation: by Male by Female

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Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american

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Words Matter Position How Public

I don't play a character. It's totally just an extension of myself.

Character Myself Play Just Extension

But I think the - what the tea party movement demonstrates, and I think the, the, the enthusiasm that we're seeing from independents and Republicans, is that if Washington isn't going to change itself, then we're going to change Washington. And I think that's what we're seeing.

Change Tea Think Enthusiasm Seeing

Ben and I have absolutely nothing to do with the Hollywood that's all actors and the Sunset Strip. We crave talking to people who do different things and are passionate about it.

Melissa McCarthy

Sunset People Talking Hollywood Who

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

Poetry Common Sense Sense Uncommon

The West Coast is so different from the common perceptions of it.

West West Coast Common Different

For a really relaxing time, you want to go to a place where the work ethic hasn't taken hold, where the culture hasn't been taken over by the western values of constant striving.

Work Time Culture Work Ethic You Go

It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be.

Important Us Would Our Supportive

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

Rudyard Kipling

Man Mind Sitting More Him Tell

As an athlete, you can train for so many years to be a 5K/10K runner. That's who you are, and it's hard to change that. Not using that technique - almost like a sprint - that's when you have to loosen up and just save as much energy as you can.

Change Energy You Train Athlete Up

You paint something, and it's yours. It's your heart up on the wall.

Heart You Wall Up Paint Something

All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.

World Trying Over Limit Rights

There are a lot of singers, but they weren't doing it the way I was, taking an Adele song and putting a hip hop beat behind it to make it a different song.

Song Doing Way Beat Different Hip

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