Faye Wattleton Quotes

My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country.

Faye Wattleton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: sociologist
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  • Birth: July 8, 1943

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I have a number of friends that try to live off their writing, and there's way more pressure for a hit or to write a certain type of book. You can't do a limited-edition short-story book with drawings unless you don't want to eat anything but ramen.

Joe Meno

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I have written my whole life. I remember writing as a small child.

Jennifer Haigh

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I think there's a lot to be learned from your teammates and older guys around you. And there are many ways to lead. You don't have to change your personality to be a leader.

Andrew Luck

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Any bilateral trade and investment agreement must be comprehensive and address the full range of barriers to U.S. goods and services if it is to receive broad, bipartisan congressional support.

Max Baucus

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Real silencing occurs when a conservative tries to speak at a liberal university like Berkeley, and the party of anger and violence acts on their hatred when a police department says we can't protect a Republican speaker.

Jeanine Pirro

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Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Aminatta Forna

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Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else.

Stacy Keibler

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Fernanda Andrade and Daphne Zuniga are two beautiful, inspiring women I met and became very close with while living in L.A. Daphne's father is from Central America, and Fernanda is originally from Brazil.

Torrey DeVitto

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Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.

Michael McKean

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I'm dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.

Drake

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Obviously the transgender movement has not progressed in the way that the gay and lesbian movement has. But I'm an activist - that's just the kind of person I am.

Chaz Bono

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I know that there was a public disclosure mechanism in my financial forms.

Anthony Scaramucci

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