Blacklisted Me Quotes

#1. The music industry had virtually blacklisted me.

Irene Cara

#2. lmost everything looked more beautiful from a distance, the earth becoming more perfect as one ascended and came closer to seeing the world from God's eyes, man's hovels and palaces disappearing, the peaks and valleys of geography fading to become strokes of a paintbrush on a divine sphere.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#3. Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever.

Richard Widmark

#4. People don't realize that they're being played by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, but more so by the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party does not want another party in there.

Glenn Danzig

#5. Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far.

Studs Terkel

#6. The terrible thing about being blacklisted as an actress was that even though, intellectually, you knew what was happening, you still always wondered whether you weren't being hired because you weren't any good.

Kim Hunter

#7. A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything.

Lee Grant

#8. Aha. The mom doesn't know. She's fishing. This next part has to be just right, or I'm blacklisted by the mother and hated by the daughter. The first would be an inconvenience; the second would be a tragedy.

Andrew Clements

#9. Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made.

Olivia Wilde

#10. I stole a Bible, is that a sin?

Kendrick Lamar

#11. A funny yet interesting read, Will Self knowa his stuff and must do a lot of deep research.

Will Self

#12. Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'

Sam Kinison

#13. Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

Baltasar Gracian

#14. Daddy, are you going to yell at us some more today?'
Neary gazed down into her clear, guileless eyes. That was how he looked to her
a yelling machine. And she was prepared to accept more yelling because she loved him.

Steven Spielberg

#15. I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland.

Ma Jian

#16. I'm not running for canonisation.

Tony Abbott

#17. It's frustrating to not be able to wear the same dress twice, so I don't have a go-to dress like all girls do. Renting is definitely going to be my new fashion obsession.

Nikki Reed

#18. Races are very often invented from ignorance, or for very evil purposes.

Francis Lieber

#19. For higher-level execs with greater public visibility, social networks need to become as good at filtering as they are at connecting.

Danah Boyd

#20. Wear sexy panties tonight," he said against my mouth.

"I don't have any other options except commando."

Lee's arm tightened spasmodically right before he murmured, "Christ.

Kristen Ashley

#21. I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.

Karen Morley

#22. In 1970, a superior Court judge issues an order forcing the desegregation of Los Angeles schools. The judge survives an assassination attempt and loses his job in the next election.

James Frey

#23. That DMC Act is a disgrace. And the problem with independent art in this country is that independent artists have been economically blacklisted.

Lloyd Kaufman

#24. My books are published by Hachette. My books have been blacklisted and blocked on Amazon on multiple occasions.

Charles Stross

#25. My whole life is a dark room. One big dark room.

Beetlejuice

#26. By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to torture in Egyptian jails, and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience.

Maajid Nawaz