Cassandra Wilson Quotes

I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.

Cassandra Wilson

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SongStoryAlwaysBehindEvenSome

More people die on a yearly basis crossing the Florida Straits than ever died trying to cross the Berlin Wall.

Joe Garcia

PeopleDieTryingWallMoreFlorida

In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

GoodCharacterDeathSufferingNever

I usually hate most of my work: probably at least more than half of it.

Melina Matsoukas

WorkHateMoreHalfMostThan

When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these images.

Mia Wasikowska

SmallFeelYouSeeingLookImages

There are plenty of reasons to put our cellphones down now and then, not least the fact that incessantly checking them takes us out of the present moment and disrupts family dinners around the globe.

Amy Cuddy

FamilyMomentPresentDownNowOut

I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece that then gets put up on the shelf, but that the impetus, the real instigation for poetry is everything that's happening around us.

Rita Dove

LifePoetryPeopleThinkForgetOut

Biology is greener and, at scale, should be incredibly cost-effective: The cost of goods sold should be little more than the sugar water needed to brew almost anything.

Ryan Bethencourt

WaterBiologySugarMoreAnything

One of my favourite movies is 'Annie Hall' because it's about the silver lining of the break-up.

Mike Birbiglia

MoviesSilverBecauseFavouriteHall

I had done a couple of plays, but I was a clueless boob. 'Cosby' allowed me to have something on my resume that was real and then the producers of 'Guiding Light' let me play a preppy killer just the following month. Suddenly I had two gigs on my resume that made me look like a real actor, although I was far from it.

Michael Weatherly

LightMeLookPlayResumeDone

I always accepted the libertarian position of minimum regulation in the sale and use of firearms because I placed guns under the beneficial rubric of minimal restrictions on individuals.

Michael Shermer

AlwaysGunsPositionBecauseUse

I was always curious about the anxiety a person would feel when you open your mouth and you have an accent. You could have a Ph.D. or be a lawyer, but as soon as you say something, you may be diminished in the eyes of someone else.

Dinaw Mengestu

EyesCuriousLawyerSomeoneAnxiety

The ultimate goal is to be the leader in mobile commerce. I'm not just saying revenues; if you're trying to find a good experience of buying something on your phone, I want you to automatically think, 'Boxed has one of the best, if not the best, experiences of buying something on your mobile device.'

Chieh Huang

GoodLeaderBestExperienceSaying

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