Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn't resonate. The specificity of it is what resonates.
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.
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The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life.
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I grew up looking at National Geographic. I always wondered who was taking the photos and how.
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Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out.
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An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life-becoming a better person.
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The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn't resonate. The specificity of it is what resonates.
