Lena Waithe Quotes

I sort of knew very early on that I wanted to be a writer. Even in high school, I was a big movie buff, very much into TV shows, and would critique them.

Lena Waithe

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SchoolHigh SchoolEarlyHighBig

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Anita Brookner

LoveLove IsPeopleStrategyReal

You can't ignore reality. You won't wake up one morning and find that the Arabs of Umm al-Faham have become part of Palestine and are no longer in Israel.

Ami Ayalon

MorningWake UpRealityIgnoreYou

I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this week did I stumble across the rightful winner: it's the sound of a baggage carousel coming to a grinding halt, having reunited every passenger on your flight with their luggage, except for you.

Sloane Crosley

WorldThinkWinnerWeekYouFlight

It makes me nuts, the idea that if you put a political struggle at the heart of your book, then it has to be that the author - me - is trying in some way to push my views onto my readers.

Ruth Ozeki

HeartStruggleMeBookPushYou

We ought to be doing that with decent standard housing but if we have people who are absolutely on the streets in this case, I think it makes sense that tent cities are preferred to not having tent cities.

Mike Lowry

PeopleThinkDoingHousingStreets

Middle-income countries need to attend to the education of their poorest people to build their economies and ensure long-term stability.

Julia Gillard

EducationPeopleBuildNeedAttend

My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.

Joyce Carol Oates

RoleRole ModelsJane AustenVirginia

Too many employers have said that they are unable to find skilled workers.

Dennis Hastert

FindSaidWorkersManySkilledToo

I love the normalcy of Cleveland. There's regular people there.

Drew Carey

LovePeopleClevelandRegular People

Change is not an event, it's a process.

Cheryl James

ChangeProcessEvent

The way I stand up to bullies is with kindness and love. Because I think that's what they really need. They're misunderstood and probably really upset themselves.

Chrissy Metz

LoveKindnessStand UpThinkStand

My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.

Antonio Tabucchi

MyselfPoliticsJobDoingLook

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