#skin

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable. ↗

— Rita Dove

#country #even #found #i #immensely

I am a very open, social, friendly person, and when it comes to people approaching me and asking for an autograph, I am totally cool with doing any of that. It's a lot of fun. ↗

— Corbin Bleu

#any #approaching #asking #autograph #comes

But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity. ↗

— Felix Bloch

#am #asking #certainly #close #conform

I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#did #girl #guess #her #i

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations. ↗

— Vida Blue

#asking #ball games #baseball #cameras #few

It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#easy #family #give #home #newborn

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#asking questions #big #egos #i #keep

I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible. ↗

— Paul M. Glaser

#audience #because #captured #close #come

I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors. ↗

— Billy Eckstine

#brown #colors #exactly #fact #i

I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#asking #assure #doctors #doubted #endeavored