Eric D. Thomas Quotes

You can't take our people from Africa and put us in a diaspora and spread us all over the world. And we survived slavery - and we can't pass a test? ... And you're gonna tell me we can't learn how to write? Have you lost your mind? We are survivors. That's all we do is survive.

Eric D. Thomas

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I struggled academically in high school because it was hard to focus. It was hard to focus on those things that were other than artistic stuff.

Andra Day

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I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.

Jeannette Walls

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When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add, 'and I don't want to read that in your magazine!' In which case I wouldn't use it. But if they didn't remember to say it, I'd nip off to the loo, write the story up, come back and change the subject.

Simon Hoggart

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I have always been a fan of genre stuff and fantasy and sci-fi.

Travis Beacham

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Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.

Rush Limbaugh

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I started - well, in England it works a little bit differently. You have to do Fringe theatre, which is basically free theatre. You do it in pubs and small theaters and village halls across the country, and you work for a theatre company. You're part of a troupe.

Joshua Sasse

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Unlike a state, a writer cannot plead the historical necessity of his actions.

Joseph Brodsky

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If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

Douglas Adams

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People aren't taking their time with the music no more. There's less quality in the records.

Astro

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I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents.

Allyson Felix

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Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

William J. Clinton

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Sometimes fans for male pop stars or actors can be a little crazy. I was that way with Jesse McCartney and N'Sync.

Selena Gomez

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