Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
Each book I write is a shout into the silence and a prayer and a plea for change.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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I am pretty expressive with my emotions. I don't think something and say something else. I don't know if it's something I should be proud of or to watch out for. Maybe I am not politically correct. I don't know if that's a crime.
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To laugh is to live profoundly.
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When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?
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Ethiopia doesn't matter to the West," I say, stating the obvious. "We offer them nothing they can exploit.
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The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
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Each book I write is a shout into the silence and a prayer and a plea for change.
