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

• 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

• 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
  • City
  • College
  • 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
  • Day

• 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

• Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

  

  Laura Miller
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• Being is only Being for Dasein

  

  Martin Heidegger

• There are certain people you're allowed to pick apart and certain people you're not.

  

  Billy Eichner
  • People

• I would tell new artists to be themselves. Show your talents first, have your own identity, don't try to be Lady Saw. If you're coming out to be like me, once you get in, return back to yourself, that's the only way you'll be happy. Don't come in trying to be me and then disrespect me.

  

  Marion Hall
  • Trying
  • Happy
  • Identity

• If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's great-granduncle Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfibul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf was invented at the same moment.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Air
  • Golf
  • Horse

• 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