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Gloria Naylor Quotes

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 25, 1950 - September 28, 2016

Topics

Sometimes Missed She Father's Day

I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they're just trying to get nominated for an Oscar!

Joaquin Phoenix

Life Home Feel Trying Say Changes

I remember going to the audition for 'Corrie.' I wasn't an actor - what they're often looking for in these rooms is a character, not what's on the page. They want to see what you are going to bring. So somehow, I got the job on 'Corrie.' For the first time in a while, someone really believed in me.

Character Time Job Me Looking You

I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.

Education Myself Think Important

Asians narratively in shows are insignificant. They're the cop or the waitress or whatever it is. You see them in the background.

You See Whatever Insignificant Cop

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

Way Out Get How Figure Characters

Get in the race car do what I do then go home. We don't have freedom to do anything anymore.

Home Car Freedom Go Race Anything

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

Michael Morpurgo

Child Short Remember Attention Young

Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.

Good Freedom Justice Compassion Sick

President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!

Vision Money Creativity People Free

I'm a 1960s flowerchild who has refused to grow up.

Grow Grow Up Up Who 1960s Refused

Humanizing good people is kind of boring and I don't really see the value in it... humanizing tricky characters is exhilarating, and making audience films out of indie subjects excites me.

Good Value People Me Good People

When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.

School Fun Writing Write Stage Soap

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