Jamaica Kincaid Quotes
I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.
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I have played Blair Cramer for 20 years, I feel a personal investment in the success of 'One Life to Live.' I love the show, I'm a fan of the characters, and I have invested in the journey these fictional characters have traveled.
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I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.
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You should always care about what you're eating because it's your body, and you should always want to eat healthy foods, but dieting tactics in Los Angeles are really confusing. There are so many different weird diets out there.
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In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.
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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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I lost the ball in the moon.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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I've fixed the toilet. And I've been crawling in claustrophobic places... you have to deal with that when you become a homeowner.
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A lot of actors won't do things because they say it is boring when you are always working. A lot of them won't go on tour, a lot won't do pantomime. I think you should do everything.
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I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.
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All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.
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I would read a lot about how to be a dad. I had never changed a diaper before we had Birdie.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.
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Quilliam will remain a priority for me because its values shape my beliefs and outlook.
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I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job. I faced great pressure because of Russia. That's taken off.
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It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy.
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The power of theocrasy or exercise of government rule over the masses by a hierarchy of priests or adepts rested on its dual system of teaching, namely : Exoterism and Esoterism, the former a code of discipline of the thought and mode of life of the masses; the latter the hierarchic school wherein were trained the chosen adepts destined to safeguard the rules imposed upon the people by the high priests.
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I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.
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My advice to graduates is to do anything except what you are trained for. Take that training to a place where it is out of place and stimulate ideas, shake up establishments, and don't take no for an answer.
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I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.
