Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
I love the physical act of writing as well as how I grow which each situation I put on the page.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.
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I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.
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The tax rate of 35 percent is impossible to provide an incentive to the large corporations, that have $1.7 trillion offshore, to put their money back in the United States.
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Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.
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I spend about a year between novels.
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But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.
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I love the physical act of writing as well as how I grow which each situation I put on the page.
