Hilton Als Quotes

I was an actor for a little bit. That's when I started to understand fiction - and that one of the great things about fiction is that you're dependent on the characters as much as they're dependent on you.

Hilton Als

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One of the reasons microcomputers progressed so fast is people are willing to accept crashes. It's faster to build something and try it, even if it means you'll have to rebuild later... If you spent too much time building and massaging one vehicle, you don't learn anything.

John Carmack

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Skating, I think I was told once, is the second most expensive sport. My family's had to refinance three times - they really want to do anything that it takes for my dreams to come true. I hope to one day have a family that I can do that for and kind of give back in the same way that my family gave to me.

Jeremy Abbott

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I think George Mitchell is a consummate professional. He is the ideal selection to handle the job of special envoy if you choose to have a special envoy.

John F. Kerry

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What's odd is that nobody in my family is an artist. My cousins are, like, secretaries at law firms or nurses or just more blue collar. And I was in a baseball team. I used to be, like, a really big tomboy.

Melonie Diaz

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I want people to know who the real Shilpa is. There's a lot of negative idea about me in the industry, and I want to prove all of it wrong.

Shilpa Shinde

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We all come from our own little planets. That's why we're all different. That's what makes life interesting.

Robert E. Sherwood

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At the start of first terms, presidents invariably have a measure of goodwill.

Robert Dallek

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I don't know any filmmaker who can deconstruct their own work.

Robert Zemeckis

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I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world.

Minnie Driver

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I make music because it helps me. I feel better after I've written a song. I listen to my own songs, and they make me feel and think about stuff I'd done or someone said to me, and I feel a bit better.

Jorja Smith

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Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.

Dennis Kucinich

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Students of color who attended integrated schools in the decades immediately following Brown were more likely to graduate high school, go to college, earn higher wages, live healthier lifestyles, and not have a criminal record than their peers in segregated schools.

Donna Brazile

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