Jackie DeShannon Quotes

And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.

Jackie DeShannon

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TimeCreativePeopleThinkYouJust

I want to work on environmental issues.

Jimmy Gomez

WorkEnvironmentalWantIssues

Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in the '50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out.

John Knowles

PeopleSickGenerationYoungOutHe

I think the Internet was invented specifically to stop people finishing their books. And it does quite a good job. I don't have blocking software, though I could easily imagine needing it. I just don't do that stuff until I've got the words done for the day.

John Lanchester

GoodDayJobWordsPeopleThink

Some people see acting as a kind of stroll on the beach, and some people see it as a kind of skydive. And I've had lots of strolls on the beach in my life, so I'd like to do a skydive.

Amanda Hale

LifeBeachPeopleMy LifeActing

'The Martin Show,' the 'Jamie Foxx show,' 'Living Single,' 'The Wayans Brothers,' 'Hanging with Mr. Cooper...' Some of these shows were good, some were typical television, but they facilitated a lot of work for blacks in front of as well as behind the camera. A lot of us in Hollywood thought it was the beginning of a real racial breakthrough.

John Ridley

WorkGoodBeginningThoughtCamera

I learned how to tell stories with Jay-Z on 'City Is Mine.' I learned how to film and choreograph dancing on 'Can I Get A...,' and I got to kind of be a documentary filmmaker with 'Hard Knock Life.'

Steve Carr

LifeCityKindHardDancingTell

I am the people's politician. If the day should ever come when the people can't save me, I'll know I'm finished.

Shirley Chisholm

DayI AmPeopleMeKnowPolitician

I saw Styx in sixth grade. I loved Tommy Shaw. I got sneakers like him - he wore these tan Nikes.

Louise Post

LovedSneakersHimTanGotSaw

Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.

Jonathan Kozol

TodayChildrenWhiteStudentMore

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

LifeLoveKindnessGoodBestMan

It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

MindSayMatterSameMustMuch

You never know what your opportunities are going to be.

Susan Egan

OpportunitiesYouKnowNeverGoing

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