Comfort came in with the middle classes.
Clive Bell
Recitation: by Male by Female
I think one of the things that attracted me about theater and the stage was the ability to escape reality. And that is what I do in my work as a writer, but in a different way. And the freedom to put your own existence on ice and become another person.
Jhumpa Lahiri
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My business is the art of balancing the need to make money with the desire to create.
John Allison
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I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous, intricate, technical business. I wish I could say that I love my characters and that frequently they take over the book and run away with the plot and so on. But they don't exist.
John Banville
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Awards shows have devolved into self-parodies - liberals in limos, corny insider jokes delivered by the hosts among bad teleprompter reading from the some of the best thespians on the planet.
John Ridley
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I changed my name when we became aware of the African revolution and the whole question of our African roots.
Amiri Baraka
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The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India.
Aly Khan
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I hope they see the genuine side of me, of my music, of my voice. I hope that they feel me. I hope that what I sing and what I say really gets across to the viewer because everything that comes out is true.
Stefano Langone
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As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence. That was part of what I learned when I learned about the Second World War and the concentration camps.
Judith Butler
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No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.
Jonathan Kozol
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I feel like a lot of pop singers hurt themselves if they don't have the proper training.
Bonnie McKee
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I'm a complete and utter busker.
Bryan Adams
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I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates.
Bob Graham
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