Bebe Moore Campbell Quotes

To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

Bebe Moore Campbell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 18, 1950

Topics

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Life? You can't manipulate it or bend it to your will. You have no choice but to roll with it.

Jillian Michaels

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I'd drown in a sea of tears if I lived my life ruminating on the past. I would undoubtedly revise memories to be more joyful that they were, or ever have been.

Maximillian Degenerez

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When I first started writing comics, in the way-back days, Typhoid Mary was my explosive response to women characters in comics - I made her an innocent virginal type, a clever, dark, liberated woman, and as Bloody Mary, a feminist bent of punishing men - all in one character. She was an instinctual rather than a calculated creation.

Ann Nocenti

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He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.

Romano Prodi

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Stories mimic life like certain insects mimic leaves and twigs.

Mary Gaitskill

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As much as my parents were worried about me moving to London at 17, they could see that I was hungry to find my path. And it probably helped that they saw me succeeding at it, slowly but surely.

Luke Evans

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A lot of wide receivers, they always run their routes at 100% speed. As a DB, that allows you to get a feel for how you need to play them.

Chris Harris, Jr.

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The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw.

Chester Brown

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Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.

Brian Eno

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The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.

William Glasser

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In Britain, eponymous lifestyle branding as we know it started in the late 1960s, with two fascinating families - the Conrans and the Ashleys - who in increasingly brilliant settings and catalogues sold rather different visions of what the new ideal upper-middle-y life looked like.

Peter York

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People aren't paying to see the Kevin McHale show, they're paying to see the cast of 'Glee.'

Kevin McHale

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