Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me - but the process of actually crafting it is essential.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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ChallengeMeProcessEnjoyTrying

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.

Ann Plato

LifeEducationGoodFutureGod

Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers.

Sue Monk Kidd

LifeFamilyChildReadingMy Life

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Truman Capote

CommunicationBelieveI BelieveMore

Any time not spent on love is wasted.

Torquato Tasso

LoveTimeLove IsWastedSpentAny

Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent.

Mathieu Kassovitz

RealityHoodNowNothingMadeFilms

Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.

Mike Fitzpatrick

AloneWorldLanguageWebsiteOver

If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

Michael Phelps

BestPeopleYouWantThingsWilling

I don't give plots to Harold Robbins or Graham Greene, because they don't need them, but a lot of authors do.

Michael Korda

NeedBecauseGiveLotThemAuthors

I didn't really come from money. So I wanted my thesis show to grab as much attention as possible.

Lucien Smith

MoneyAttentionPossibleShowCome

The real biographies of poets are like those of birds, almost identical - their data are in the way they sound. A poet's biography lies in his twists of language, in his meters, rhymes, and metaphors.

Joseph Brodsky

BirdsLanguageDataWaySoundReal

I've played the guitar since I was 12, I've played the piano since I was 15.

Joseph Parker

GuitarPianoPlayedSince

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

Dolly Parton

IntelligenceSmartFeelCountrySay

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