Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
I feel like, as a person of color, I've always been kind of doing the work against the tide.
Jacqueline Woodson
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
Lady Gaga
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
Ice Cube
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
J. D. Salinger
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
Patricia Highsmith
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See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.
Rachael Harris
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
Nargis Fakhri
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
Dan Savage
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
T. B. Joshua
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
Eartha Kitt
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I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
Rand Paul
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I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.
J. D. Salinger
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
Wayne Swan
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I have lots of shoes, but I have to be comfortable. Lately, I've stolen my husband's big, ugly Uggs to wear around the kitchen. I want to have them on, then slide into a fabulous heel later. Truth is, I often forget the heel.
Debi Mazar
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Constant exercise can keep the body trim and taut, but the face is another thing.
Nell Scovell
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I love making music, but if you make something that inspires somebody else to make something, without getting too airy-fairy, you've contributed to the zeitgeist in some way, and that's just an amazing feeling.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne
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Put the picture away or, preferably, send it back to me, dear Valentin. If people cannot understand it is based on their inner engagement with these matters, then there is no point in showing the thing at all.
Max Beckmann
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I only want my work to make people happy.
Jackie Chan
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I feel like, as a person of color, I've always been kind of doing the work against the tide.
Jacqueline Woodson
