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Ralph Ellison Quotes

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: March 1, 1914 - April 16, 1994

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Style Play Jazz Him Out Own

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

Melanie Lynskey

Interesting You Acting Kind Personal

A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs.

Michael Connelly

Community Newspaper Center Going Web

I don't want to be famous or recognizable. I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet... I've been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that's just not something I want.

Stars Writing Internet Famous Look

I promised never to let the Rwandan Genocide die because I knew the Rwandans didn't have much power internationally and certainly didn't have the resources. I felt it was my duty having witnessed it, and having stayed to witness it, that I had to talk about it and keep it going.

Power Die Duty Talk Never Resources

The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act is an important authorization for our country and for our citizens, as we have seen so vividly in the last few weeks.

Transportation Country Important Act

First impressions are huge, especially with the coaching staff.

Coaching First First Impressions Huge

There's nowhere you can aggregate more people in one fell swoop than a broadcast network; there's no place you can build a star quicker than you can on a broadcast network.

People You Place Build More Star

I look to work with businesses that know what they are doing but need larger distribution or exposure.

Work Doing Look Know Need Exposure

It's like whether you're in a huge movie or you've just recorded an incredible album you've got to do the next thing, and that's part of being an artist.

You Artist Next Being Got Just

I think I was born to be an actor.

Think Born Actor I Was Born I Think

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

Arnold H. Glasow

Fear Ignorance Shadow

Just as computer technology and the Internet created whole new industries and extraordinary benefits for people that extend into almost every realm of human endeavor from education to transportation to medicine, genetics will undoubtedly benefit people everywhere in ways we can't even imagine but know will surely occur.

Education Technology People Medicine

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