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Pearl Cleage Quotes

I worked in Maynard Jackson's first campaign, and I remember the excitement we felt when he won.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Remember Excitement First He Won

My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room full of ambitious eight-year-old girls by acting the wallflower. I realised then that I couldn't do things half-heartedly.

Attitude Childhood Stand You Acting

It would drive me crazy if I picked roles with the goal of being a leading man. You never know what you're getting into when you sign onto a project, and more times than not, the characters that are close to the leading man are more interesting and more fun to play.

Man Fun Me Crazy Drive Interesting

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way.

Fire Think Better Learn You Done

Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those of wood rats, while their more enduring monuments, excepting those wrought on the forests by the fires they made to improve their hunting grounds, vanish in a few centuries.

Walk Birds Hurt Landscape Wood More

I'm going to give all my money away, eventually. I don't believe in all this hand-down stuff. Even if I had kids, I don't think I'd want to give them everything.

Money Believe Think Want Everything

I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next, a commentator on European affairs; next, a public intellectual voice within the American left; and only then an occasional, opportunistic participant in the pained American discussion of the Jewish matter.

Teacher History Myself Voice Matter

Independents come back, usually right before an election. They tune out, and then they start refocusing.

Start Back Election Right Out Come

I feel like we're in a place as a society where it feels like the problems that exist need to be talked about. And this generation isn't afraid to talk about them, which is exciting, and I think it's important.

Society Problems Think Generation

In my early years doing standup, I bombed a lot.

Doing Early Years Lot Standup

I would be so happy to be back on 'Arrow' or on 'Legends of Tomorrow,' in whatever capacity.

Happy Tomorrow Back Legends Whatever

There is no king of golf. Never has been, never will be. Golf is the most democratic game on Earth... It punishes and exalts us all with splendid equal opportunity.

Opportunity King Game Golf Earth Us

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

Yourself People Writing You Meet

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