#rite

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. For my own people, it was important to imagine him as the Great Emancipator, the Moses who led us out of slavery. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#because #claim #closely #everyone #great

Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It's so different but it's so similar to the United States, to Miami. It's like a doppelgaenger. It's the mirror image. And I have no doubt, that once Cuba becomes democratic, that it will be the favorite tourist destination for Americans. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#cuba #democratic #destination #different #doubt

What I write is not for little girls. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#i write #little #little girls #write

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#because #briefly #chiefly #far #few

Yes, I did some rewrites of the show as some of the stuff was not very good and I worked my butt off to make it something that the audience liked and that I could be proud of. ↗

— Gil Gerard

#could #did #good #i #liked

I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out. ↗

— Yvonne Strahovski

#favorite #favorite things #freaked #freaky #go

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#i #play #songs #stage #sweep

It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#kind #life #make #me #my life

No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake. ↗

— Walter Lang

#direct #holy #holy spirit #miraculous #mistake

Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct. ↗

— Frank Langella

#direct #i #i can #produce #write