Bernice Johnson Reagon Quotes

I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

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My interest in community is what fuels my work as a writer, more than just wanting to write or just wanting to have a TV show.

Jill Soloway

WorkCommunityMoreWriteInterest

I'm excited about turning 40. I've been an adult for a long time, but there is a difference between being an adult and being a grown-up. I'm someone's mummy now and I'm enjoying that. I feel as if I'm about to hit my peak.

Jill Scott

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I'm not a bad mimic, and I can pick up speech cadences that I would not pick up if I didn't hit the road.

John Gregory Dunne

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I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.

Stephen Harper

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Inner conflict is really fun to play because there's a lot going on, and the choices - when you've got a character with internal conflict - the choices you make have broader ramifications because they have inner ramifications and ramifications in the world.

Silas Weir Mitchell

CharacterFunConflictWorldChoices

As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.

Tom Stoppard

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I truly believe that philanthropy and commerce can work together.

Donna Karan

WorkTogetherBelievePhilanthropy

I don't have a ton of friends, but the friends I have are great ones. I don't have huge family, but the family I have is a great one.

Alicia Keys

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Lacey said if he wanted to read a daily or regular critiques of the Bush administration, he would read the New York Times, and that's not what he wanted in the Village Voice.

Sydney Schanberg

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I had decided after 'Hollow Man' to stay away from science fiction. I felt I had done so much science fiction. Four of the six movies I made in Hollywood are science-fiction oriented, and even 'Basic Instinct' is kind of science fiction.

Paul Verhoeven

ScienceManDoneMoviesKindStay

Having children showed me a whole different kind of love that I had never known. It was something that had always been missing. Complete love. I would die for them.

Scott Weiland

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We did what we wanted to do, made it work, and made our own rules - and the best art we could - along the way.

Kevin Abstract

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