Jamaica Kincaid Quotes
Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they're not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the time. I don't remember writing, because I wouldn't have had the tools, but I think what they are saying is that I would pretend I was a writer.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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We just here to do our job.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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75: The computing field is always in need of new cliches: Banality sooths our nerves.
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America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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One tip I like is don't forget your reusable bags when you go to the drug store or to the mall. I think most people think of the bags for the grocery store, but I try to take mine wherever I go.
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I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of and think about and see in the night sky through a telescope: four percent of the universe.
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Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they're not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the time. I don't remember writing, because I wouldn't have had the tools, but I think what they are saying is that I would pretend I was a writer.
