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“With Django Unchained, when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.”

Amount Safe Highest Difficulty Slavery Lays Routine Twists Flip Gymnastics Quentin Tarantino Django Django Unchained

Author:Jamie Foxx

“So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.”

Looks Lasts Faces Culture Next Difficult Impossible Generations Difficulty Aim Lays Arise Coats Jamaica Specifications African Culture

Book:I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to lay them down becomes the difficulty.”

Thinking Way Mean Suffering Simple Difficulty Lays Simplicity Complicated Tunes Get Over Simple Ways

Author:Thom Yorke

“Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if it were organically part of them. That must be why we have so much trouble returning borrowed books. It's not exactly theft (of course not, we're not thieves, what are you implying?); it's simply a slippage in ownership or, better still, a transfer of substance. That which belonged to someone else becomes mine when I look at it. And if I like what I read, naturally I'll have difficulty giving it back.”

Ifs Way Giving Looks Children Stills Book Fall Courses Trouble Mines Claims Difficulty Lays Possession Substance Thieves Ownership Theft Transfers Borrowed Implying

Author:Daniel Pennac

“These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.”

“I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.”

Thinking Stories Dark Crazy Difficulty Lays Crooked Bloodline

Book:The Sisters Brothers

Source: The Sisters Brothers

“I never let the thought of failure enter my mind. My knowledge of my unity with the Universal One and the fact that I must do this thing, and the inspired belief I should do it as a demonstration of my belief in man's unlimited power, made me ignore the difficulties that lay in the way.”

Men Way Should Mind Made Facts Belief Secret Universal Difficulty Lays Unity Inspired Unlimited Demonstration Unlimited Power

Author:Walter Russell

“Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.”

May Evil Conditions Advantage Difficulty Lays Coping

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin