Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

We, as adults, are the gatekeepers, and we have to check our own fears at the door because we want our children to be smarter than we are. We want them to be more fully human than we are.

Jacqueline Woodson

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• My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Believe
  • Values

• When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Bad
  • Feelings
  • Years

• TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.

  

  Gail Porter
  • World
  • Done
  • Job

• At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.

  

  Eddie Perez
  • People
  • Years
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• I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Age
  • Actress
  • Hollyweird

• For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Attention
  • Always
  • Act

• If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Thinking
  • Body
  • New York

• I owe it all to Jesus.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Jesus
  • Owe

• I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Inspired
  • Ocean
  • Paris

• I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Spirit

• Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Women
  • Career
  • Proud

• I like to think of myself as classy.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Classy

• You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Worry
  • Numbers
  • Repetition

• Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Race
  • Will
  • Generosity

• You want entertainment in general, every aspect of it, to be more of a reflection of the diverse world that we live in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Live
  • Reflection

• We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • World
  • Thoughts
  • Explore

• I love doing improv, and I swear by it, and I encourage people to take classes, and blah blah blah. But it's always been interesting how it doesn't necessarily translate to television.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • Love
  • Interesting

• This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Doubt

• I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Up
  • Time
  • Him

• Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Up
  • Love
  • Door

• I have eight brothers and sisters, so I'd like to have a few children.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Children

• Every door opens to something and it is better to go toward that something than to sit staring at the blank wall of time.

  

  Zelda Popkin
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Door

• We, as adults, are the gatekeepers, and we have to check our own fears at the door because we want our children to be smarter than we are. We want them to be more fully human than we are.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Children
  • Door