I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
Paloma Faith
Recitation: by Male by Female
My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pistol was how to deal with Margaret Thatcher. I think we did rather good.
John Lydon
LifeGoodGreatChallengeThinkSex
For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
Ama Ata Aidoo
PurposeFightCorruptionLiterature
For a lot of comics who aren't as silly or physical but more intellectual, we get looked at as 'alt comics.' No, I'm still a black comic, and there are black people who want to hear my type of black comedy, but that space hasn't been built out for us.
Amanda Seales
SpacePeopleBlackComedySillyOut
Having a better and more productive life than my monster father has been my most significant accomplishment.
Stephen Hunter
LifeFatherAccomplishmentBetter
I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.
Trent Reznor
WorkManMakeupOld ManWantNever
It went from Bob Newhart to Flip Wilson to Bill Cosby to Richard Pryor to George Carlin to Cheech and Chong. I had all these records.
Ron White
RecordsFlipBobHadRichard Pryor
The cooperative, loving side of existence goes hand in hand with coping and power, but neither the one nor the other can be neglected if life is to be gratifying.
Rollo May
LifePowerLovingHandExistence
To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing.
Lisa Leslie
AmazingFeelPresenceLordThing
Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.
Chauncey Wright
ConfidenceKindBeliefMindsHigh
A generation of Earth Days has conditioned millions of us to be green in our homes yet we must apply the same ethic to our politics if we want to save our planet and our democracy.
Christine Pelosi
PoliticsGreenDemocracyGeneration
I wrestle in a big way with August Wilson's work in that I at times admire it and at times feel infuriated by it, which is weirdly more influential than loving someone entirely.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
WorkFeelSomeoneLovingAdmireWay
I was taught to whistle as a little girl by an undertaker. I used to sit in his workshop, watching him planing wood for the coffins, and he used to whistle all the time - and eventually I started whistling, too. I can whistle anything, particularly trumpet tunes from Classic FM.
Susan Hill
GirlTimeI CanWoodWatchingHim
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