Lorraine Toussaint Quotes

People's faith, people's beliefs are such a personal thing, and it defies definition. I'm so rarely interested in discussing what I believe or what you believe. I think it's liquid, anyway.

Lorraine Toussaint

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FaithPeopleBelieveThinkYou

My travel habit is usually to visit somewhere I have never been rather than develop a consistent relationship with a place.

Jodi Balfour

RelationshipHabitTravelPlaceBeen

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.

Matthew Modine

LightNegativePhotographyPieceHow

The American television industry is a Darwinian environment where success is usually measured in inches, not yards. That is, for most TV media, audiences have gotten so small that one measures 'victories' in tenths of a point - as in, a 2.2 percent share is a great leap over a 2.1 percent share.

Steve Bannon

SuccessGreatSmallAmericanMedia

There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me.

Skeet Ulrich

GoodTimeMeThinkYouI Can

An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.

Louis de Bernieres

FamilyLawImpossibleResponsible

In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.

Jonathan Evison

WritingWaySafePlayingFound

When something's made in the smallest volume - as a one-off couture piece - or in large quantities, deep care is critical to determine authentic, successful design and, ultimately, manufacture.

Jonathan Ive

DeepCareDesignSuccessfulCritical

It's important sometimes to have pictures that are not as retouched and show more of the real skin.

Doutzen Kroes

PicturesSkinImportantSometimes

When they write about real stuff like my custody battle, that's no fun. Some things have leaked out about accusations that have gone back and forth and that's just mean. It's a tactic.

Dean Cain

FunBattleBackMeanWriteReal

To be clear, affirmative action is not, by itself, an adequate response to decades of systemic looting, but it has been an indispensible tool in inching us towards some semblance of a more equitable society.

Clint Smith

SocietyActionMoreToolUsClear

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

InspirationalBeautifulDesertWell

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

Paul Theroux

GreatTravelFindingThreeSayMark

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