Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, 'Instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.'

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• I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.

  

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  • Life
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• Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Matter
  • Say
  • Wrong

• I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Want
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• As soon as we can wrest from Nature the secret of the internal structure of the compounds produced by her, chemical science can then even surpass Nature by producing compounds as variations of the natural ones, which the living cell is unable to construct.

  

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• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

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• Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
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• Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

  

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• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

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  • Deep
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• I never lie to my fans.

  

  Becky G
  • Never
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• I may as well say it, I have been married three times.

  

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  • May
  • Married
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• There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Great
  • True
  • Small

• I've always been very tied to language.

  

  Barbara Kruger
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• Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

  

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• The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Up
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• Bridget Jones has a lot to answer for.

  

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  • Answer
  • Lot
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• You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.

  

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• I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

  

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• When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.

  

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• I don't understand business minds. I consider myself an artist, and they just really don't mix.

  

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• The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

  

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• Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.

  

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  • Good
  • Sacrifice
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• In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside Shanghai, where we remained until the end of August 1945.

  

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  • Parents
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• I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.

  

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  • Age

• When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, 'Instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.'

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Teacher