Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
I can't write about nice, easy topics because that won't change the world. And I do want to change the world - one reader at a time.
Jacqueline Woodson
Quotes to Explore
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
Idina Menzel
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
Malcolm Turnbull
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
Jack Nicklaus
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
Ian Botham
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
Barbara Bush
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
Kaley Cuoco
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
Jackie Cooper
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
Walter Becker
Steely Dan
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
Fiona Apple
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Tonight, I want to say to every member of the democratic party, who believes in limited government, in personal opportunity and the united States constitution, and a safe and secure America, come home. To the Reagan Democrats, your party has left you. And the Republican party wants you, we welcome you back.
Ted Cruz
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
Ed Gillespie
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The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.
Rafer Johnson
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My dad's idea of punishment was to dress me up in all green to disguise me as grass, and then throw me in the pasture. Cows bit me all over.
Bryan Callen
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On my first European solo tour, I was selling maybe 50 tickets a city until I showed up in Paris and heard the show was already at 150 tickets, which, at the time, really blew my mind and took me by complete surprise.
Kevin Morby
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To be honest, I watch way more dramatic films when I'm chilling at home. I think when you work in comedy, you just want something different in your private life. Makes you feel balanced, I guess.
Bill Hader
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I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.
Ajay Naidu
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As a prosecutor and a senator, one of my main criminal justice priorities has been enforcing and reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, a bill with deep roots in Minnesota, seeds planted by former Senator Paul Wellstone and his wife Sheila.
Amy Klobuchar
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I can't write about nice, easy topics because that won't change the world. And I do want to change the world - one reader at a time.
Jacqueline Woodson
