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Nat King Cole Quotes

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

Nat King Cole

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 17, 1919 - February 15, 1965

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Respect You White Things Ease Just

'Skins' had been a brilliant breeding ground for young actors, young directors and young writers. It was a safe environment to experiment; it tried new things, and it was an amazing time and amazing to be part of it.

Joe Dempsie

Time New Things Amazing Environment

I'm either thought of as ethereal or fiery. And maybe that's the interesting thing about red hair: there's that fiery Renaissance connotation and the ethereal.

Jessica Chastain

Red Hair Thought Interesting Either

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.

Jeremy Northam

Nature Truth Great Human Nature Tell

I think screenplay is hard. I've tried that, and it felt really difficult; like, all the stuff I think I'm good at, like description and internal experience and memory, you can't do that - or, at least, I couldn't figure out a way.

Andrew Sean Greer

Good Experience Memory Think You

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

Maya Angelou

History Slavery Serious Abolition

I became a Republican, before I knew what a Republican even was, because of Ronald Reagan.

Ana Navarro

Republican Because Even Knew Before

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

Sophia Amoruso

Business Creativity Go Hand Always

Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.

Rob Sheffield

Style Look Her Religious Public

You just don't know who you could fall in love with.

Ruth Bradley

Love You Fall Know Just Who

I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.

Josh Gad

Family Mother Age Light Humor Me

I'm like a bunch of college guys who got together and said, 'Let's make a dude, a crazy dude'.

Chris Kirkpatrick

Together College Crazy Said Got Who

Prosthetic makeup is always frustrating.

Peter Jackson

Makeup Always Prosthetic Frustrating