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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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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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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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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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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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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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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This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.
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I don't have to make examples out of players to establish my own place. I don't feel like I have to.
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We all come from a woman. We have to make love.
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The world is going to end for each of us in a prescribed time, and you sort of understand that your time is limited at a certain point, and you want to get done the things you want to get done. You don't want to leave things undone, because you only have a limited amount of time.
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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.
