Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
I realized if I didn't start talking to my relatives, asking questions, thinking back to my own beginnings, there would come a time when those people wouldn't be around to help me look back and remember.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.
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Something that's interesting is how my perspective on different events can change over time even though the events themselves haven't changed. As I get older, I interpret something differently, or I can even interpret a person differently.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
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I realized if I didn't start talking to my relatives, asking questions, thinking back to my own beginnings, there would come a time when those people wouldn't be around to help me look back and remember.
