Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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I've done, like, 45 movies, played 40 gangsters and five crooked cops.

Tony Sirico

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When my stepmother had my sister, Katharine Hepburn dropped by to say hello. She came with George Cukor, who wasn't a star, but he was a famous director. He was also my grandmother's best friend, so I knew him well as a kid. But when George showed up with Katharine Hepburn, I was utterly star struck.

Tony Goldwyn

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The comedy in 'Star Trek' is always very subtle, if it's there at all.

Robert Duncan McNeill

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It was an absolute honour to fight in Vegas. Every fighter dreams of fighting at the MGM Grand. That's where so many legends have fought before and so many legends will continue to fight.

Robert Whittaker

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In the underlying bill, I think the authors of the legislation, those in support of it, understand the use of the Mississippi River. Yes, there is commercial navigation on it, and there will be tomorrow.

Ron Kind

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I don't think my life is more interesting than anybody else's.

David Sedaris

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I don't like to think too far ahead.

Willie Nelson

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Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.

Suzan-Lori Parks

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We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we can't wake up from.

Thomas Frank

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For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it.

Les Claypool

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I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things that happened when I finished 'Drown' was that I got busy living. I'd never travelled, I'd never seen anything. So I did as much travelling as my job teaching would allow.

Junot Diaz

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Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

Henry Adams

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