"You know, they say you can reduce genius to someone who spent 10,000 hours trying to get good at something. I'm not claiming either one of those. I haven't done anything for 10,000 hours but sleep. But you do stuff enough, you get better at it. Usually it's a simple thing like that. Essentially, a brainless endeavor."

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Source : "Set List: Randy Newman". Interview with Sam Adams, music.avclub.com. May 31, 2011.

Randy Newman

#Sleep Quotes #Simple Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Well, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and west are products of the great migration. It's that massive. Many of us owe our very existence to the fact that people migrated.”

Source : "Journalist Isabel Wilkerson". "Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. December 23, 2010.
“Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?”
“Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.”
“Satan is always looking for legal right and authority to torment and attack people. Whatever he has the right to do, the devil will do.”
“What parts had she discarded for the sake of her sanity? What had she cut from herself? Had he stared into her pupils he would have emerged, bewildered and blinking, on the far side of the earth. Was he awed by her? Absolutely. Did he respect her? Unequivocally. Want to be anything like her? No, never, not at all.”
“Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece.”
“Gray sail against the sky, Gray butterfly! Have you a dream for going. Or are you the blind wind's blowing?”
“[The] Hopi earth does contain my roots and I am, indeed, from that land. Because the roots are there, I will find them. But when I find them, [my father] said, I must rebuild myself as a Hopi. I am not merely a conduit, but a participant. I am not a victim, but a woman.”

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