"I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

John Ridley

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“The biggest enemy to the partnership of dressage is impatience and the human nature to dominate other creatures.”

Source : Walter Zettl (1998). “Dressage in Harmony: From Basic to Grand Prix”, p.32, Trafalgar Square Books
“With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge.”

Source : "Paul Feig: Underrated Man of the Moment". Interview With Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. May 11, 2011.
“I don't want to know who he's been with or how many (women). I do want to know that my man is not a virgin, because I want to know that he knows what he's doing. But I don't need to know how he's learned it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think all of us, looking back on our careers and our lives, there'll probably be a "road not taken" that we'll regret and mourn. Certainly, artists will always feel that way, especially when the path taken was more commercial than the one not taken.”

Source : "Being Nina Simone". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 25, 2015.
“But as Shakespeare’s Richard II boasts, ‘Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm off from an anointed king.”

Source : Leanda de Lisle, Leanda Lisle (2013). “Tudor: Passion. Manipulation. Murder. The Story of England's Most Notorious Royal Family”, p.27, PublicAffairs
“Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.”
“My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.”
“The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.”

Source : Albert Murray, Roberta S. Maguire (1997). “Conversations with Albert Murray”, p.129, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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