Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal with it and to write about it.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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I moved to Dallas in 1975 and stayed there until 1980. That's when I decided it was time to move to L.A.
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Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.
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Apart from logical cogency, there is to me something a little odd about the ethical valuations of those who think that an omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent Deity, after preparing the ground by many millions of years of lifeless nebulae, would consider Himself adequately rewarded by the final emergence of Hitler and Stalin and the H-bomb.
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I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.
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The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.
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Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.
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To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal with it and to write about it.
