Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
If someone has something they're really passionate about, that's their brilliance, and my big question is how do we grow that passion/brilliance and/or help them grow.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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A designer is like a doctor for a woman. He has a specific job, and if he is doing it well, he will have the gratitude of the woman for the rest of his life.
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'OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am a singer.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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I will never sell Flipkart.
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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If I can't do high kicks or dance in it, then I won't wear it.
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When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation.
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You want a drumstick? Like a ice cream cone or a chicken wing!?
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As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that.
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I do my own makeup for events and red carpet stuff.
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If someone has something they're really passionate about, that's their brilliance, and my big question is how do we grow that passion/brilliance and/or help them grow.
