Quotes with person

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  • Buchi Emecheta I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Paul Auster I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.
    (2014)
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Maya Angelou I believe that every person is born with talent.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Maya Angelou I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Fred A. Allen I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Angela Davis I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Salvador Dali I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Josh Billings I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Abel Ferrara I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
    Abel Ferrara
    American filmmaker (1951 - )
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  • Beck I don't need to cry so much. I think whatever you let loose with crying, I let loose with singing. I tend to be the one who wants... I'm trying to say this without sounding too touchy-feely. I'm usually the one who's better at comforting the person who's crying, you know?
    Jane magazine, April 2000
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Al Yankovic I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.
    Al Yankovic
    American musician (1959 - )
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  • Robert A. Heinlein I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • A. N. Wilson I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Agnes Smedley I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Bruce Coville I feel like a very lucky person. From the time I was young, I had a dream of becoming a writer. Now that dream has come true, and I am able to make my living doing something I really love.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Walter Chrysler I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.
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  • Tom Lehrer I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
    Tom Lehrer
    American musician, satirist, and mathematician (1928 - )
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  • Assata Shakur I found that people had all kinds of levels of consciousness, all kinds of levels of education, but that Cubans in general were very educated politically. I could go sit in a bus and get into a conversation with someone and that person had a wealth of knowledge. And energy!
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Bill Bryson I had to calm down because a state trooper pulled up alongside me at a traffic light and began looking at me with that sort of casual disdain you often get when you give a dangerously stupid person a gun and a squad car.
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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