Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

I feel like my job is to look at the world and to report what I see, to write what I see as honestly and directly as I can. I don't want to cut it or make it easy, but be as direct as I can.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

Joe Orton

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Most times, life or death is the highest stake a person can play for.

Jim Starlin

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Now, perfectly ordinary people will give each other hugs. I mean, it used to be that a hug was reserved for if you came back from Australia - you know, back in the '40s and '50s.

Melvyn Bragg

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But it was also the best mistake I've ever made, because what it did was hopefully allow a whole new generation to make up their own minds about Scientology and for that I make no apology.

John Sweeney

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When I was an actor in some movies a long time ago, I was so curious about all the camera movements - why is the camera placed here, and why does it move like this? And why the set and the background, the color? It's a lot of questions for me to ask, because I was so interested, not only in acting, but also the whole process of filmmaking.

Stephen Chow

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As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.

Rodman Philbrick

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I would like congratulate everyone who was a part of 'Life of Pi.'

Anupam Kher

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I usually work out 4 hours a day during the week and 5 to 6 hours on Saturday, with Sundays off.

Shawn Johnson

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When I read the script, I was like, Hello, woman in a box. I had to explore that to the end.

Sherilyn Fenn

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I dream about food.

Tia Mowry

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'Evil Urges' has some stuff in it that's unbelievable.

Todd Haynes

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If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy.

Tim Burton

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