Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.
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To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.
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We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.
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We must make choices that are outside of the familial expectations of us, or we'll just be repeating the mistakes. Our parents came here to give us better choices.
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I would never try to motivate anyone to follow me. I would motivate him to follow certain principles.
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Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American culture and see vast inequity, widespread institutionalized violence and racism and transphobia and environmental destruction. It's hard to be in this world and feel a sense of innate satisfaction at all. There's plenty of things to feel unsettled about.
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The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.
