I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.
My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.
I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.
As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns.
I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.
When you work on a movie, you just have no idea how it's going to come out; you hope it's good, but you don't really know, and you don't see it until about six or nine months afterward, and I saw it and was pretty pleased.
Sometimes you wanna be James Bond, and sometimes you wanna be Marlon Brando until you realize you can't be either!
I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
In the research I did for 'Apollo,' there was never a moment's hesitation by anyone that we would do anything other than save these guys, until every resource, every ounce of energy was spent. And I'm very proud of that aspect of our culture.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke.
Until I separated from Parker, I had never been without them-and it's the hardest thing to share them. But we're trying to give the children the semblance of having whole lives.
Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.
I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.
You never know until a song comes out and becomes what it becomes, obviously you can't predict how the masses will react.
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
Investigating some of the largest subprime lenders - Wells Fargo, Countrywide, Ameriquest, Household Finance - I've seen how their terrible, toxic loans were closed by any means necessary and eventually packaged, sold as securities, and bet upon until they exploded and decimated our economy.
You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.
My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.
I started growing my own organic vegetables... and started a routine of generally going to bed at 9.30 to 10 o'clock every night and sleeping until 7 A.M. I take perfect care of my machine.
When doing your aerobic exercise, go at a comfortable pace until you've developed more stamina.
It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.
I was only 5'10'' until I was a senior in high school.
When I was 7 years old, I announced that I was going to write a book about pollution. I didn't get around to it until I was 29, but I always recognized that pollution was a theft. That it was a way of stealing something from the public - the common earth.
My father's whole life was work. He had a retail store in Ossining, New York, and I mean, he was down there at 6:15 every morning. The store didn't open until 9, but he hadda be down there. That's all he knew.
I was an avid reader as a child because we didn't have television in Ireland until the mid-'60s.
I came along in the '60s having absorbed as much as I could up until then and added my own tastes and search into the equation. I guess that's how I see 'Now He Sings, Now He Sobs' in relation to the development of jazz in general.
There was no terrorism in the Middle East until Washington brought it there with invasions, bombings, and torture.
I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.
You can always argue you're never good enough until you win the Super Bowl. And even then, you're going to lose players, and you're not good enough then, either.
