David Levering Lewis Quotes

Harlem was a development, a developer's dream and a place where residents had more space and more amenities than ever before. The subway reached 145th street about 1904, and it seemed that Harlem's destiny was to become largely a preserve of successful ethnics relocating and arriving. Then, overnight, the bust took place.

David Levering Lewis

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Talent is talent.

Jimmy Iovine

Talent

This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.

John Aniston

BusinessSmartChooseWisely

You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart.

Anna Held

ManDatingSmartThinkYouNever

That's probably fair to say that there is a certain amount of pressure to deliver your next role when you do have a fan base as potent as the 'Battlestar Galactica' family. There was certainly a lot of curiosity to all of us on that show - what are you going to do next? Where can we see you next? That was a question we got more often than not.

Michael Trucco

FamilyCuriosityPressureYouSay

But most of my songs were about believing in yourself, standing up for yourself and fighting for what you believe in.

Dee Snider

YourselfBelieveFightingYouUp

There seem to be more women producers than men.

Claire Denis

WomenMenMoreSeemThanProducers

After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.

Claire Tomalin

GreatCreatorCharactersAfter

A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.

Anne Lamott

LifeFaithLightTogetherWords

If you're a filmmaker, and every time you finish a film, you just naturally go, 'Oh, I could have done so much better,' that's not much fun, is it, really? You might as well go pick another profession if that really is how you derive satisfaction from it.

Peter Jackson

TimeFunBetterYouSatisfactionGo

Rita got the best of us. We took quite a beating. It's going to take a while to come back from this.

Rick Fox

BestBackTakeUsGoingCome

Who are benefits promised to, overwhelmingly? Well, they're promised to older people. And if you have a society like Europe that is upside down where there are a lot more older people than younger people, you have economic calamity.

Rick Santorum

PeopleSocietyUpside DownYouDown

I never thought I was a great mom. I always worked. I fell in love with my children as they got older.

Marla Gibbs

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