Jacqueline Woodson Quotes
Readers are hungry to have their stories in the world, to see mirrors of themselves if the stories are about people like them, and to have windows if the stories are about people who have been historically absent in literature.
Jacqueline Woodson
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
Maluma
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver
If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.
Laura Dern
I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
Jack Nicholson
When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
Rachel Tucker
One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
Gary Locke
Health and well-being, as well as how we can live in harmony with our planet, is something I'm passionate about.
Nargis Fakhri
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
Jackie Gleason
The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
Idries Shah
People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.
Eddie Huang
The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase, a woman's sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; her hand pulling close the bed curtain, the discreet sigh of flesh against flesh.
Hilary Mantel
Readers are hungry to have their stories in the world, to see mirrors of themselves if the stories are about people like them, and to have windows if the stories are about people who have been historically absent in literature.
Jacqueline Woodson
