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The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist. Dinaw Mengestu
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The fact is, African Americans have not benefited equally from the improvements that are making a difference. Durado Brooks
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I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed. Aasif Mandvi
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My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America. Toyin Odutola
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Now I've devoted my life to making sure that I can be a trailblazer for any other African American kids or any other gay kids or any other kids that just feel weird or uncomfortable and have their own issues and don't know how to express themselves. I want to be like a beacon for those kids now. Todrick Hall
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Don't say you want to be an actor and not know how to read a script. Don't give up 15 minutes before the miracle comes. Everyone's career ebbs and flows, especially if you're African American. That's the time to dig in and keep your instrument sharp. Erik King
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The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech invention. The BRCK shows that great ideas can come from anywhere, that innovation comes from solving real problems with constrained resources.
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While he was in the service, in the South and in Oklahoma, he was refused service at a couple of places where he was in uniform, and was told that African Americans, blacks, Negros, were not served. And in spite of that, I've never known a man who loved this country more than my father did. Eric Holder
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The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name. Kandyse McClure
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We want to provide the opportunity for people to experience space in as many ways as possible.
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We have to go out, and whatever happens on one play, whether good or bad, we have to go to the next play. We gained valuable experience since the game we played them. We've executed better, so I just can't wait to see us putting it out there. Anthony Davis
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We have a solid staff and we have five guys that have experience and know how to pitch. It's going to be a fun year. We've still got to go out and play the games, but we have the potential. We'll see how it plays out. Chris Carpenter
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We have no specific expectations about how far we will go now. We just want the players to keep learning from the experience of taking part in these international matches. Zhang Ning
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Whenever you don't have fastball command, it's pretty tough to get everything else to work. If anything, it's a good learning experience to know that the fastball is the most important pitch you throw.
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We want people to experience as much as they can instead of talking at them, lecturing at them, or reading information to them.
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We were trying to be everything to everyone. My experience tells me that sometimes that doesn't work. You can't really differentiate yourself in the marketplace.
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It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it. Charles Caleb Colton
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We have played more games on the road ... we've had that experience already. We're ready to play, and we know we have to play well. Tara VanDerveer
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We used to watch a lot of movies,
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Ultimately, making movies is a really, really small world. Being on sets and going to the same locations, like shooting in Shreveport, you're always working with somebody from another set that you worked with. Taylor Handley
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If theatre paid as well as movies and TV, I'd do it all the time. Tom Irwin
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Movies are a team sport now, and I want to play singles. Terry Hayes
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I don't write plays for them to be turned into movies. Tracy Letts
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When I was a little girl, I used to watch a lot of monster movies, like 'Godzilla.' All those monster movies. Rinko Kikuchi
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Those movies sure got me into a rut. Elvis Presley
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The movies that will truly be successful will feel different than the movies of the year before.
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When I was a girl, there wasn't anything in Spanish in the movies until you saw it on DVD. Eiza Gonzalez
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I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them. Carl Barks
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But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman. C. S. Lewis
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Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. Charles Dickens
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One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times. Sandra Cisneros
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Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception. Brent Spiner
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Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story. Bret Easton Ellis
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Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories. Diane Setterfield
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A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.
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A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.
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Im committed to universal health coverage and education. Carol Moseley Braun
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Freedom is a universal value. Jan Peter Balkenende
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what is most personal is most universal Carl Rogers
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Shakespeare is universal. Harold Bloom
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You know, funny can be universal. Maz Jobrani
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Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money. Stephen Sondheim
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In L.A., I live right across from Universal Studios. Kodi Smit-McPhee