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Tim Wise Quotes

Old white people have pretty much always been the bad guys, the keepers of the hegemonic and reactionary flame, the folks unwilling to share the category of American with others on equal terms.

Tim Wise

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 4, 1968

Topics

People Flame American Bad White Old

I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.

Joe Abercrombie

People Reading Surprise Plan You

A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

Robert Sheckley

Process Self-Doubt Novel Often

As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is.

Amiri Baraka

Art Think Learn Political You Your

How did I end up in films with people like Keira Knightley... all these beautiful leading ladies and me - it's kind of shocking.

Steve Carell

Beautiful People Me End Kind Up

You're always just going to be who you are.

Soccer Mommy

You Always Going Just Who

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

Pope Francis

Battle Church You Person Seriously

I don't kiss on screen. Period.

Shah Rukh Khan

Kiss Screen Period

I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom.

Richard Rhodes

Think Want Write Out Something Whom

I love my mother and father. The older I get, the more I value everything that they gave me.

Liev Schreiber

Love Father Mother Value Me More

Under promise and over deliver. People will be pleasantly surprised that you gave more than they expected. And remember that there is always room for us to be better and do better. That's what I am calling for. Not just everybody else - myself, too.

Luvvie Ajayi

Myself I Am People Better Remember

I have spent an awful lot of time listening to Canadians, learning from them, working with them.

Justin Trudeau

Learning Time Listening Working Them

Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.

Gus Van Sant

Death Weird Island California Bigger