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Ralph Ellison has 85 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and…
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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it." Stephen Covey "It takes a deep commitment…
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Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural…
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The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by…
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I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be…
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.
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America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the…
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And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find…
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I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point…
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We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to…
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I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it,…
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Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.
— Vladimir Kramnik
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To me, he has his own style. He doesnt remind me any more of myself than I did (other tailbacks). I did…
— Barry Sanders
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I think every director's different. Every director's got his own style. I mean, when I directed, I basically just screamed for eight…
— Michael Biehn
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No, Wayne (Rooney) doesn’t need it (tips about style). He has his own style. But with hair he looks much better. He…
— Cristiano Ronaldo
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much…
— Ben Jonson
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by…
— Ralph Ellison
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James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He writes and sings songs that are…
— Jon Landau
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
— Sachin Tendulkar
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Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.
— Audrey Hepburn
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For John Woo, it is quite difficult to make a movie in Hollywood in his own style. Because Hollywood is based on…
— Alan Mak
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Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor…
— James Thurber
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