Keenen Ivory Wayans Quotes

I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

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I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.

Jeffrey Wright

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If I started preaching politics from the pulpit, our church would empty overnight. That's not why people come to church. They want to hear the word of God being proclaimed, not the word of Robert Jeffress.

Robert Jeffress

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I know, when I was in film school, some of my films were silly, but a lot of them were more dramatic. I don't think I intentionally set out to do comedy stuff. I guess that's a consequence of coming up working with David O. Russell and skewing toward those sensibilities.

Jeff Baena

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Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.

Rita Dove

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The history of art is not just the history of artists; it is also the history of the people who viewed art. And that wider perspective can help us see some of the reasons why the art of the ancient world should still matter to us.

Mary Beard

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Every time I meet with the CEO of a big laptop company, they tell me they 'studied' my design.

Mary Lou Jepsen

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I pledge to you I'm not a talker. I'm a doer.

Michele Bachmann

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It's not easy to play a match every two days.

Juan Ramon Lopez Caro

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I've been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.

Brian De Palma

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I cannot think that I am a good cricketer and just become one. For this, one needs skill.

Sushant Singh Rajput

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I wanted to be a film and television writer and producer.

Tyra Banks

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I grew up in a neighbourhood where there was a lot of fighting. It's what boys did during school, during recess, after school. And I was a fairly large kid. So everyone wanted to see if they could take me on.

Mark Kurlansky

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