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Effa Manley Quotes

People say, 'Don't live in the past.' But I guess it depends on how interesting your past is.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businesswoman
Nationality: american
Birth: March 27, 1897 - April 16, 1981

Topics

Live Past People Interesting Say

My grandmother valued her Southern roots, folk culture, and healing.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Culture Healing Roots Grandmother

I spent almost two years trying to get my father elected president.

Father Trying President Two Years

Any time you get a new running back, whether it's a rookie or hasn't played a lot, that's the first thing you test, is their pass protection. That's big.

Time You Back New Test First

I've been able to write at least one book a year for 20 years, and I don't think I would've had that kind of drive if I hadn't come out of the journalism business.

Michael Connelly

Business Drive Book Think Year Kind

Most theater methodology is predicated on the idea of repeated actions. That's what you work toward. Having the actor repeat the same moment eight times a week. In a film, it's getting that one moment right.

Work Moment Week You Actor Right

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

Nature Empathy Human Nature Violence

In England, unless I am mistaken, I think some of the politicians who love classical music and opera are a bit loath to be seen there in case people think it is elitist. That is a real shame because it also means we are not allowing our politicians a hinterland that an earlier generation, a Denis Healey, would have taken for granted.

Love Music I Am People Think Shame

Canberra was my home for many years, and there's a lot to love about it. It has a small population with a strong sense of community and is top-heavy with interesting, highly educated, socially progressive people - the opposite of the stereotypical image of dull public servants.

Love Home Community People Small

I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.

Time Moon Speak Language Learn

I think I'm connected to this issue in some capacity, football and brain damage. So carving out a way to address it tactfully is important to me no matter what I go on to do.

Football Me Brain Think Important

Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.

Beauty Think You Own Something Your

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

Clarence Thomas

Education People Grandfather Who

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