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Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.
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If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up.
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Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into it.
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I feel like a stone you have picked up and thrown to the hard rock bottom of your heart.
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I believe I'm a born winner. I always think about winning.
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She had all the best things wrong with her—incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for a memoir. She’s so lucky.
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I hadn't had any course work in ceramics. I had no courses in art education but I wasn't going to let this chance to have a job pass me by. I went out and learned and I stayed one step ahead of the students by reading and I got to be pretty proficient at throwing on the wheel and making my own glazes, ordering the chemicals and having the students go out and dig and process their clay, and doing things that they weren't teaching at Howard University. So Talladega College opened up my whole sensibility about experimental teaching.
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I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years.
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Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.
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My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
