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.
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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.
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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.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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I am unboreable in the great outdoors.
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You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
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I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.
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I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
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My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.
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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.
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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.
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Be an individual. I mean, obviously it's hard for a brand, for a corporation, to have a huge following.
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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'.
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I want to proclaim a truth that would forever exile me from among the living. I know only the conditions but not the words that would allow me to formulate it.
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When I read or hear of the mutual injuries of England and Ireland, I fancy it would have been a blessed thing had the sea never flowed between the two countries. Had they been all in one, surely there would have been more unity between them of interests and of feelings. But let us hope that days of peace and general enlightenment will arrive by ways past man's finding out.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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Time has touched me gently in his race,And left no odious furrows in my face.
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I read a lot of the books that I love again and again and again and try to understand how the writer did it.
