Darryl Pinckney Quotes

Paule Marshall does not let the black women in her fiction lose. While they lose friends, lovers, husbands, homes, or jobs, they always find themselves.

Darryl Pinckney

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I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

Jim Carrey

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I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.

Melanie Laurent

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They were totally uplifting my work and gave me a platform, and now I have an ongoing relationship with the White House. We're working on some very, very, very big things for the trans community.

Angelica Ross

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My heritage is a huge part of everything I do; it is, after all, part of what has made me who I am.

John Rocha

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Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history.

John Shelby Spong

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It would be a dream if I was able to fight in Croatia.

Stipe Miocic

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My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home.

Michel Gondry

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Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

Minnie Driver

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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Douglas Horton

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Before now, I've always taken my mixes out to the car and listened to them in the parking lot. I still do that, but more so now I'm listening to it on the Beat box, and I think people should give it at least a listen and check it out and see what it is.

Dr. Dre

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It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.

Brit Hume

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Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.

Rick Perlstein

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