Alice Walker Quotes

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

Alice Walker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 9, 1944

Topics

LifeProgressPeopleRestThink

The public doesn't particularly care for advertisements.

John C. Malone

CarePublicParticularly

Madeline Kahn is one of my favourite people in the entire world and one of the funniest. She was a talented Broadway star and also sang opera.

John Grant

PeopleWorldSheOperaStar

To an entrepreneur, closing a financing often feels like the end of a marathon. It's actually the starting gun.

Andy Dunn

GunEndEntrepreneurClosingLike

My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they did that. And it was a great boon to my brother and myself.

John Cassavetes

LifeFearFatherMotherGreatGo

People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice.

Melanie Griffith

WorkPeopleVoiceThinkYouActing

My family and I live in a wing of a Georgian mansion in East Sussex, which was built in the 1780s and fell into disrepair. It was rescued in the Seventies and carved into six terrace houses.

Simon Toyne

FamilyLiveSeventiesBuiltHouses

I've always been aware that the image you patiently construct for an entire career can be ruined in a minute. It scares you a bit, but that's the way things are.

Roger Federer

YouCareerWayAlwaysImageAware

I like to think that my music allows people that cathartic cry.

Mary Lambert

MusicPeopleThinkCryLike

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

StrengthSelfWeaknessRememberYes

Film people can be quite ruthless and tough. I think it's because the industry is filled with talented, driven people chasing nowhere near enough work.

Jon Ronson

WorkPeopleToughThinkEnoughFilm

The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.

Dionne Warwick

TimeJusticeAmericanMusiciansAct

I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.

Chris Evert

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