Hisham Matar Quotes

The romantic idea of the penniless writer is false. It's terrible. I hated being in debt. I hated the anxiety of not knowing whether we could pay our rent that month. Thankfully, I had a wife who was very supportive and had faith and shared my madness.

Hisham Matar

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FaithRomanticWifeAnxietyMadness

I have decided not to run for president.

John Bolton

RunPresidentDecided

The liberals love you until you say something critical about Hillary Clinton.

Ana Navarro

LoveYouSaySomethingCritical

You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland Gap, Tenn.

Rodney Atkins

ParentsBabyYouKnowWonderfulMay

Only ugliness is obscene.

Mary Quant

OnlyUglinessObscene

I'm just growing old, darling. I don't know about gracefully.

Judy Parfitt

Growing OldGrowingKnowOldDarling

We're feeding all these zoos. And that's getting bigger and bigger.

Dick Van Patten

FeedingBiggerGetting

When I raced, I had great parents, even a greater coach and a nutritionist. I was never insecure.

Donovan Bailey

GreatParentsNeverCoachGreater

Entertainment's definition has been reduced to making people happy.

Anurag Kashyap

HappyPeopleEntertainmentBeen

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

Alice Walker

LookDownAncestorsFirstOur

I think the genre of musical theatre, when it started, the pop songwriters of the time were writing the music. I think sometimes when we write musicals now, we keep writing in that same style, as though that's the musical theatre genre... We have to figure out how to tell stories with the music that we listen to now, or we'll lose our audience.

Renee Elise Goldsberry

MusicTimeStyleWritingTheatre

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

LifeWarDangerousEnemyPrejudice

Each day is a different length of time and that gives a different length to the cusp between light and darkness or darkness and light.

James Turrell

TimeLightDayDarknessDifferent

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