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“The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.”
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“When I think about what really matters, it's not looking at art that has made the most difference or has been most shaping of the poetry; it's simply living as completely in the world as a politically alert creature, as someone who is both stuck in and also trying to view the historical moment. Folded into all of that, of course, whatever you see in your life.”
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“You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself,”
Source : James McBride (2012). “The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother”, p.125, A&C Black
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“I don't play the same guy a lot because there really isn't a guy for me. There really isn't a type you can put me in that satisfies everything.”
Source : "Stephen Spinella on hair, bombs and his new play". Interview with Mark Kennedy, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. April 17, 2014.
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“Anybody that'll stand up to The Cline is all right.”
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“We're trying to find areas of cooperation with Russia in the area of counterterrorism and the campaign against ISIS.”
Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
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“The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.”
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“It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If it isn't one thing--it's another! It's always something.”