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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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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I am unboreable in the great outdoors.
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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
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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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So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff.
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I remember as a little boy I ate one meal a day and sometimes slept in the street. I will never forget that and it inspires me to fight hard, stay strong and remember all the people of my country, trying to achieve better for themselves.
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I find the closer you get to people, the harder it is to satirise them.
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When you are old enough to... play powerful parts, who cares if you are 45, 55 or 65?
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The most important thing for me, when somebody asks me what I class as being a success, is being a decent human being.
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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.
