Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

I read a lot of the books that I love again and again and again and try to understand how the writer did it.

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• I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Family
  • Business
  • Culture

• Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • America
  • War

• I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Long
  • She
  • Lost

• It was always my dream to write for a living.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Living

• I am unboreable in the great outdoors.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Outdoors
  • Unboreable

• I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Taken
  • Never
  • Body

• You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • Luxury
  • Fragrance

• I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Friends
  • Myself
  • Acting

• I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Life
  • Want
  • Sun

• My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Dad
  • Never
  • Vinyl

• I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• Acting to me is real life - I don't act.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Real
  • Me

• When I got out of college, I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if I wanted to be a composer, conductor, singer, actor. I just got day jobs and auditioned and took what came, and the theater doors were the ones opening the most.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • College
  • City
  • Day

• It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • Man
  • Name

• Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!

  

  Barbara Bush
  • May
  • House
  • Wish

• I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Men
  • She
  • Day

• I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Up
  • Love
  • Theatre

• Be an individual. I mean, obviously it's hard for a brand, for a corporation, to have a huge following.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Mean
  • Individual
  • Brand

• If you just work on that one thing that's, like, important to you, that has been supportive of you, who has been loving you all this time, if you are able to see that, then that is your 'best love'.

  

  Yuna
  • Work
  • For Her
  • For Him

• When I was a kid, we didn't have a TV until the late '50s, but I can remember watching Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Steve McQueen, and 'Gunsmoke.'

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Remember
  • Kid
  • Late

• I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.

  

  George Lindsey
  • Up
  • Great
  • Friend

• You won't rise to the occasion - you'll default to your level of training.

  

  Barrett Tillman
  • Training
  • Rise
  • Occasion

• Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it.

  

  Joseph Smith, Jr.
  • God
  • Author
  • Mormonism

• I read a lot of the books that I love again and again and again and try to understand how the writer did it.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson