Bernice Johnson Reagon Quotes

When the culture is strong, you've got this consistency where black people can grow up in these places with this voice just resonating about our special-ness in the universe. And I always say you're in trouble if you get too far away from that core that grounds you.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

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Jimi Hendrix is a classic example of a player in which everything he did, it was all in his hands.

Joe Bonamassa

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I couldn't do 'Eleanor Rigby' because it was clashing with another project - something I was going to go do - something with Liv Ullmann.

Joel Edgerton

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'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

Jennifer Egan

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You need continuity. You need a commitment and continuity.

Jeff Fisher

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'Dexter' has been very, very good to me. I would rather stop doing it than cheapen it.

Jeff Lindsay

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I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

John Zorn

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The difference between pros and amateurs is that pros play hurt.

Roger Ailes

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Look at the opening sequence of 'The Blues Brothers,' which starts at the prison. The way it was filmed, it does not look like a comedy. I thought that was great.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.

Joseph Barbera

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What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

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Some people are saying, 'Justin Bieber is racist.' Is he? I don't know.

Don Lemon

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I have a great belief in not doing anything unless I'm passionate about it.

Anthony Horowitz

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