Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
There was something about telling the lie-story and seeing your friends' eyes grow wide with wonder. Of course I got in trouble for lying, but I didn't stop until fifth grade.
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I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
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I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.
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Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away.
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When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.
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I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.
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Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.
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I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'
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And what excites me most is the type of public, the fact that the Parisian people have a broader cultural understanding than many Americans do.
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People think they have a perfect idea of who you are from a four-second Snapchat video... and fake blogs, stories, magazine covers. In reality, that's not the case. Nobody knows who I am except family and my close friends.
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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.- Robert Frost Now that all your worry has proved such an unattractive business - why not find a better job?
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The joy and the pain for me is about tightroping between being a cynic and being a romantic - the tug between barely believing in anything and hoping for everything.
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There was something about telling the lie-story and seeing your friends' eyes grow wide with wonder. Of course I got in trouble for lying, but I didn't stop until fifth grade.
