Mara Brock Akil Quotes

When I walk into a room, I know my storytelling has value and I have to sell my idea. I have to help people see the financial value and gain in my work.

Mara Brock Akil

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I've never been mugged, never really experienced street fear. In fact, I'm the one who gets into arguments because I don't keep my mouth shut.

Jodie Whittaker

FearMouthStreetNeverKeepBeen

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

Jerome K. Jerome

LovePeopleStupidMorePleasant

I don't want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things, and there is nothing wrong with stating your opinion if you are asked. Everyone wants that right, and because you are famous doesn't mean you have less of a right.

John Travolta

OpinionFamousYouWrongCreate

I can't tell you at DragCon how many families that waited in line to see me. Some of them waited up to five hours, and they had their family there. That's the beauty of this. I remember being that little gay boy in Mesquite that was so afraid of the world, like, 'Am I living right? Am I living wrong?'

Alyssa Edwards

FamilyBeautyMeWorldRememberYou

There are few sights more pleasant to the eye than a wide cotton field when it is in bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.

Solomon Northup

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I definitely stood out when I was in high school.

Ashleigh Murray

SchoolHigh SchoolOutHighStood

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

Audre Lorde

WomenTrueSheOutConsciousness

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

Allan Massie

CircumstancesResponsibleActions

What, of course, we want in a university is for people to learn the skills they're going to need outside the classroom. So, having a system that had more emphasis on inquiry and exploration but also on learning and practising specific skills would fit much better with how we know people learn.

Alison Gopnik

LearningPeopleBetterLearnKnow

Getting a Grammy nomination for 'Brooklyn' meant a lot, especially because, as an album, it was one that was very personal to me but also one that I self-produced and had gone outside the label.

Wyatt Cenac

MeBrooklynPersonalOutsideGone

Japan is a bully nation that takes what it wants and threatens any who oppose it.

Paul Watson

NationJapanBullyWhoWantsTakes

With books like 'AD: After Death' and 'Wytches,' a lot of those things are inspired by reading things that terrify me.

Scott Snyder

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