Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

When I write, I don't think about messages for my readers.

Jacqueline Woodson

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• It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • You
  • Celebrity
  • Really

• I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Real
  • May
  • Fashion

• When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Future
  • Past
  • Mistake

• In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Good
  • Different
  • Better

• The qubit acts as a bridge between the microscopic and the macroscopic worlds.

  

  Aaron D. O'Connell
  • Bridge
  • Between
  • Acts

• I have what is probably the largest big bike collection in the city: a Fat Boy, a sportser Harley Davidson and two Yamahas. All these are 1200cc-plus bikes. Riding these bikes is something I still do and some trekking as well.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • City
  • Boy
  • Bike

• I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Got
  • VIolin
  • Grade

• As things go digital, the notion of new editions will go away. A publisher can add video and assessment content at scale, make the change in 30 seconds and it's just a software update.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • Change
  • Software
  • Digital

• Adequacy is sufficient.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Sufficient
  • Adequacy

• Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right?

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Health
  • Myself
  • Wise

• There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Light
  • inspirational
  • Mirror

• On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Know
  • Improvement
  • Go

• In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Book
  • Year
  • Research

• I'm Latin - we start young, honey!

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Start
  • Young
  • Latin

• I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Me
  • Film
  • Choose

• It was always my dream, to do a leading role on Broadway. It's what I went to college to do, in hopes of one day someone taking a chance on me and saying, 'You know what? You're going to be our girl.'

  

  Patina Miller
  • Dream
  • Girl
  • College

• You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • May
  • You
  • Rich

• 'Blue Valentine' was a really sad movie, but I loved the moments when they're discovering each other for the first time.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Moments

• I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not, and, you are much happier than I. I must say that so often in earlier times when I saw people of the lower classes, simple manual laborers who could believe so rightly with their hearts, I always envied them, and now tell me how does one begin this?

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • People
  • Believe
  • Simple

• It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.

  

  Cornelia Otis Skinner
  • True
  • Spring

• So, yes, 'Codename Baboushka' is all-action and over-the-top, at least by my standards. But it also has a complex, multifaceted protagonist, a deep mystery at its core, and a kind of humanity that, through all the bullets and high-kicks, is really the soul of the book.

  

  Antony Johnston
  • Book
  • High
  • Soul

• The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.

  

  Adora Svitak
  • Work

• I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • People
  • Believe
  • Earth

• When I write, I don't think about messages for my readers.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson