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'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.
Elizabeth Berkley
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Me being a shy kid, very closed off, showing vulnerability in a character was sort of a safe space on stage. It's always been in my toolbox, there for me when I need it.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
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…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi
Virchand Gandhi
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TV is so seductive with a great workday. You're going to work and making people laugh, and that's fantastic.
Jillian Bach
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I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in the House of Lords, they're great public servants and they do an absolutely tremendous job.
John Major
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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
