Jamaica Kincaid Quotes
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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution.
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As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.
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Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
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I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.
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There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we're taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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I'm an affectionate person.
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I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.
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The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
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The danger that we have right now are people who get the same information as I do and, therefore, think they'll reach the same conclusions that haven't traded as long, don't have bear claws up and down their backs like I do.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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Chess is a competition. Checkers is a competition. Mostly, I'm interested in doing real sports.
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The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.
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I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.
