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Gloria Naylor Quotes

You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Confidence God Talent You Teach Out

I am very concerned about anything that says 'revenue' because let's just be honest; revenue for Democrats has become code for tax increases.

I Am Tax Become Anything Democrats

I've never had Botox. But I like people to imagine I have.

Jennifer Saunders

People Never Imagine Botox Like Had

In the India I was growing up in, history wasn't really a wise career option. People would joke and say, 'History's okay, but what's your actual job?' I didn't come from a privileged background and couldn't afford to be irresponsible, so I did the pragmatic thing and did a MBA.

History Job Wise People Growing Up

I got issues. Boy, have I got issues.

I'm very rational, so sometimes I need the facts, and if I don't have the facts, then I get huffy, and I move on.

Facts Move On Sometimes Need Get

The judiciary wields enormous power but is utterly mysterious to most Americans. People know more about 'American Idol' judges than Supreme Court judges. Done right, social media is a high-octane tool to boost civic awareness.

Power Social Media People American

It's never really easy to be successful as a writer when you're trying to write literary fiction. You've already limited your readership limited by that choice.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Trying Easy You Choice Never Write

I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.

Desire Tell Act Involved Paid Would

Data suggest that central black holes might play an important role in adjusting how many stars form in the galaxies they inhabit. For one thing, the energy produced when matter falls into the black hole may heat up the surrounding gas at the center of the galaxy, thus preventing cooling and halting star formation.

Priyamvada Natarajan

Stars Energy Black Data Play Heat

The nation is arming. What are they arming for if it isn't that they are so distrustful of their government? They're afraid they'll have to fight for their liberty in more Second Amendment kinds of ways.

Government Fight Liberty More Nation

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

Creative You Person Always Changing

Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people have seen 'Batman' movies over the past 20 years, and they have been entertained and inspired. One man saw it as a sick entry point for mass murder. The one is tragic. The billion are not. I choose to write for the billion.

Past Man People Evil Sick Choose

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