Geraldine Brooks Quotes

I'm very, very leery of nonfiction books where they change timeframes and use - what do they call those things? - composite characters. I don't think that's right.

Geraldine Brooks

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ChangeThinkRightThingsNonfiction

Education is very important, and I understand that.

Amar'e Stoudemire

EducationImportantUnderstandVery

Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

Sidney Blumenthal

CreativeGovernmentTryOfficeUsed

You're trying to bring an emotional and psychological reality to a character that's on the page and make them three-dimensional.

Tom Irwin

CharacterRealityTryingYouPage

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

Robert E. Lee

ManHonorHelpTrueOthersHumbled

While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself.

Roland Gift

MyselfPeopleMeGrowing UpEarly

Designers become translators for me. That's why I've gone to people like Gareth Pugh and Viktor and Rolf - they are speaking a nuanced language. Fashion says a lot for me.

Roisin Murphy

PeopleMeFashionLanguageBecome

I feel like after my incident, it really made me realize football is not here forever. I'm all the more anxious to come out here and let my teammates know, 'Look, hey, this is the same JPP. Missing fingers aren't going to stop me from playing some ball.'

Jason Pierre-Paul

FootballMeFeelLookStopKnow

I think it's a mistake for young filmmakers to just buy digital equipment and shoot a feature. Make short films first, make your mistakes and learn from them.

Jason Reitman

MistakesMistakeThinkShortLearn

In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

SlaveryInventionAcknowledgement

There is a disconnect between Arkansas and Washington, D.C. The career politicians in Washington are not listening to people here in Arkansas, and this is the fundamental problem with politics.

Conner Eldridge

PoliticsPeopleListeningProblem

I thought she was just the Queen and he was Prince Philip, and that was just who they were, without thinking about them as a mother or a father or daughter.

Claire Foy

FatherMotherDaughterQueenThought

My playing music is strictly for fun. When I was in a band, I was really excited to talk about it since I had never really played music to that extent. It was never meant as something I would consider as anything more than having fun with my friends. But I think I would enjoy writing music for the movies that I'm working on.

Anton Yelchin

MusicFunWritingHaving FunThink

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