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Aja Naomi King Quotes

I've been performing since I was a child; my mother would have to pull me aside and tell me that I wasn't onstage. I was a cheerleader, president of choir, and in the school play.

Aja Naomi King

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: January 11, 1985

Topics

Mother School Child Me Play Choir

If you've written a powerful book about a woman and your publisher then puts a 'feminine' image on the cover, it 'types' the book.

Meg Wolitzer

Woman Book You Powerful Image Your

I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.

Ani DiFranco

Work Women Hate Experience Men More

You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.

Sugar Ray Robinson

Morning Start Wake Up You Done Quit

What interests me is the idea that classics is actually quite democratic. It isn't only the toff, upper-class subject it's often thought to be. Every generation enjoys rediscovering it.

Mary Beard

Me Thought Generation Classics Idea

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Me Writing Book Planning Process

I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.

Jason Beghe

Life My Life Person Moral Meet Who

You can tune your guitar funky, and something's gonna come out. There's no secret to it - either you got it, or you don't.

Dimebag Darrell

Guitar You Secret Out Something Got

Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.

Chevy Chase

Stars Media Television Press Make

My favourite movie right now is probably 'Hitch', a Will Smith thing.

Chris Moneymaker

Now Will Right Movie Favourite

It's no disgrace to play against the world's champions and lose by one service break in the last two sets.

Bobby Riggs

Service World Lose Champions Play

I'd like to think that the door is always open for just the best actor for the role, you know? Race or gender shouldn't have anything to do with it, unless the character or story is focused on that for some particular reason.

Antoine Fuqua

Character Best Door Story Think You

You say you're a comedian, you always have to be on guard.

Anthony Anderson

You Say Always Guard Comedian