Pearl Cleage Quotes

I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.

Pearl Cleage

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 7, 1948

Topics

DreamPoetBeingPressPlaywright

Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.

John Henry Patterson

YourselfYouTryConvinceDropSure

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.

Jeff Bezos

PositiveBusinessImpactImportant

I think that, every individual you invent in narrative work, you have to have some root in who that person is. That may be an aspect of yourself; it may be an aspect of something that you like, that you don't like. It may be an aspect that you wish you had. Maybe something you admire in another person.

Amor Towles

WorkYourselfThinkWishYouPerson

Golf mogul Donald Trump sports an arrangement of hair that is less a comb-over than a 'do-over, a candy-floss confection of gossamer wisps that comes off as the clumsiest cover-up since Watergate.

Steve Rushin

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My teammates, they keep you focused.

Torrey Smith

YouTeammatesFocusedKeep

May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven.

Roger Bannister

TimeWeatherWindStrongYearYou

Plus, I've always felt that, if the worst came to the worst in my career, I could always fall back to doing voices on the radio.

Rob Brydon

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The '50s was the golden age of music all over the world for some crazy, 'X-File'-like reason I can't quite understand.

Ry Cooder

MusicAgeCrazyWorldUnderstand

I can't keep somebody from being a star, and I can't make somebody a star, and nobody can.

Dolly Parton

NobodyStarBeingKeepSomebody

All of us suffer difficulties in our lives. And if you say to yourself 'find a way,' you'll make it through.

Diana Nyad

YourselfYouFindSayWaySuffer

After 10 years of WWE, in a somewhat dramatic fashion, it just didn't feel right, so I stepped out of my contract, and after 10 years of that schedule, I had all this time.

Cody Rhodes

TimeFashionFeelScheduleRight

Demanding abrupt and expensive changes in public policy raises fair questions about ideological intentions.

Bret Stephens

QuestionsIntentionsChangesFair

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