Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
-
I am a crazy Maverick fan. I would go there if Dallas was a great entertainment center.
-
If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
-
I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
-
I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
-
I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
-
It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
-
You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
-
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
-
I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
-
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
-
I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.
-
I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
-
You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.
-
The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.
-
I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
-
We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
-
I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.
-
I think people will believe anything about someone they haven't seen for a while.
-
I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think.
-
Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.
-
Every year I used to write a musical inspired by John Waters, and I would get all my friends together and put on this perverse, emotional, tragic musical.
-
Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.
-
I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out.
