Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
The hardest part is telling one's story. Once the story is on the page, the rest will come.
Quotes to Explore
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
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I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
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We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
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I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.
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I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.
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I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
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I, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of liberty only when they are caught lying.
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Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan.
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I'd love to be a Giant for the rest of my career.
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We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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When people are smiling they are most receptive to almost anything you want to teach them.
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What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.
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The hardest part is telling one's story. Once the story is on the page, the rest will come.
