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"They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America."
"What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats... or skinny."
"When you're reaching for a star, there's a long way to fall."
"If you reach for the stars, you just might land on a decently sized hill."
"Every one is struggling for freedom-from the atom to the star. The ignorant man is satisfied if he can get freedom within a certain limit-if he can get rid of the bondage of hunger or of being thirsty. But that sage feels that there is a stronger bondage which has to be thrown off. He would not consider the freedom of the Red Indian as freedom at all."
"The frost makes a flower, the dew makes a star."
"Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness."
"My idea is to integrate black stars into mainstream stars. It hasn't been explored properly. That's what Im doing in Hollywood."
"No one wants to sell to just 12% of the population for the entire length of their careers. It creates a difficult and less-profitable environment. But Hollywood has lived with that limiting mantra, and only a few black stars have managed to break through."
"86% of its audience was made up of people of color. That tells you that the full potential of many black stars won't be realized until their audiences are fully integrated."
"You can imagine several scenes from Star Wars? The way they looked? For me, that's how music is. Sometimes I'll be developing riffs for songs, just while I'm sitting around and not playing."
"I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young poet."
"Mark Tobey fills his canvases with elliptical, calligraphic lines, beautiful whirls that seem at first glance to be completely abstract and to come from nowhere at all except his own subjective musing. But I shall never forget how struck I was, on visiting Tobey's studio one day, to see strewn around books on astronomy and photographs of the Milky Way. I knew then that Tobey experiences the movement of the stars and solar constellations as the external pole of his encounter."
"So please get your rags And your polishing jars, Somebody has to go polish the stars."
"Star Wars' is such a phenomenal global supernova that anything that gets said about it becomes kind of fact and gospel, and then taken by the legions of fans who are so excited to have more 'Star Wars,' that they roll off on all sorts of flights of fancy."
"I was four years old when I saw 'Star Wars,' and it has been significantly important throughout my entire life."
"There are bigger stars out there than me. But I went through my s-, as people do as they get older."
"Most of what I do is science fiction. Some of the things I do are fantasy. I don't like the labels, they're marketing tools, and I certainly don't worry about them when I'm writing. They are also inhibiting factors; you wind up not getting read by certain people, or not getting sold to certain people because they think they know what you write. You say science fiction and everybody thinks Star Wars or Star Trek."
"I’m going to be a star, you know why? Because I have nothing left to lose."
"Take my picture Hollywood. I wanna be STAR"
