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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One of the things that put me off writing for a while was that piece of advice everybody gives new writers: 'Write what you know.' Nobody would ever want to read about my boring life! But I do know a lot of things about different societies' cultures and mythologies. The way people were and are.
Carol Berg
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I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.
Emma Donoghue
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But for the rest of us, we all have stories, we all have a past, and the difference between people who are effective and people who are not is this: Will you use your story, or will your story use you?
Carl Lentz
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I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.
Adam Hughes
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Actors, you have to wait for people to give you work, or you have to make your own stuff. But standup, I could just say, 'I want to do standup in 30 minutes,' and I can go do standup. Or I could just say, 'I want to do standup in a few weeks in this city.'
Hannibal Buress
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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
