Rebecca Traister Quotes

Scores of African-Americans have written both appreciatively and critically about what 'The Cosby Show' meant to them over the years.

Rebecca Traister

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I know firsthand how agonizing waiting can be.

Joe Manchin

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Storytelling enables us to play out decisions before we make them, to plan routes before we take them, to work out the campaign before we start the war, to rehearse the phrases we're going to use to please or placate our wives and husbands.

Jim Crace

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My role is to think about what the future could be for Airbnb - and that includes crafting an effortless and easy-to-use service on any platform, whether mobile, tablet, or Web.

Joe Gebbia

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Faulkner's characters, too, were uneducated. They were deprived, but they were allowed to have very rich inner lives. I want to advocate for that, for inner lives that are much more complicated and more poetic than we think.

Jesmyn Ward

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When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.

Robert Smith

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Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.

Max Bill

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Television has always been an appealing medium for writers to work in.

Travis Beacham

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Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'

Mary Todd Lincoln

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I'd love the career of Julie Walters. As a man.

Russell Tovey

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I don't think of my songs as sad songs. I think of them as vulnerable and honest. I crack jokes in between songs, so people don't leave feeling too dark.

Mary Lambert

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You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life.

Jon Crosby

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Whatever I do with music, I try to make it align deeply with the values and principles of who I am and what I believe the purpose of my life is.

Jon Batiste

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