Martine Syms Quotes

At some point, all black movies became biopics. All the good, serious ones became biopics. 'Ray,' 'Ali'... those types of movies, those are the opportunities available for mostly men. Those are the opportunities for a black actor to transcend 'black' movies. They have to play a black icon.

Martine Syms

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GoodMenOpportunitiesBlackPlay

Whoever is president, my first priority is the same - as always. I look for what's best for West Virginia and the nation as a whole.

Joe Manchin

BestLookPresidentFirstNation

I grew up in a little town with about 6,000 or 7,000 people. I always knew from 11 or 12 years old that I wanted to be a writer, and I always wanted to write about growing up in a place like that that's small and you don't fit into.

John Corey Whaley

PeopleGrowing UpSmallYouPlace

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.

Tom Vilsack

PeopleAmericaPovertySometimes

I asked a couple of months ago if anyone would like to start picketing the gas stations.

Ron Ziegler

StartGasWouldLikeMonthsAnyone

The idea that God's mercy is connected to whether or not I shave is ludicrous, and I need to just trust myself, and that, you know, if I'm deserving of God's mercy, I'll get it, regardless of, you know, my beard.

Matisyahu

GodMyselfTrustBeardYouMercy

The variety of polyprenol phosphate sugars may turn out to be as large as that of sugar nucleotides.

Luis Federico Leloir

SugarTurnOutVarietyMayLarge

I would admit that poetry is something more than mere communication and that if that 'something more' could be abstracted from the whole, it might well prove to be that which makes the whole a poem.

Louis MacNeice

CommunicationPoetryAdmitProve

In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.

Liu Xiaobo

BecomeChinaCriminalElements

For my part, as a filmmaker, I've never been a fly-on-the-wall documentarian. I have no commitment to that method. I believe it's a lie.

Joshua Oppenheimer

CommitmentLieBelieveNeverBeen

I've had to grow up with everyone watching me, which has been hard.

Joss Stone

MeGrowGrow UpWatchingHardUp

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.

Dian Fossey

PeopleLearnYouDignityWantMore

I will always remember the fear in the faces of the executed. That's the first day I felt the devil's presence.

Chris Gibson

FearDayDevilRememberWillFirst

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