Jamie Parker Quotes
You can't go into parenthood as a battle wearing armour. It doesn't work that way.
Jamie Parker
Quotes to Explore
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The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.
Tammy Duckworth
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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
Halle Berry
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
Ralph W. Sockman
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
Otto von Bismarck
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
Naveen Jain
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I never left doo wop.
Aaron Neville
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
M.I.A.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
Rachel Kushner
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
Ildar Abdrazakov
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Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
Salman Rushdie
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
Hailee Steinfeld
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
Rachel Kushner
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
Zane Grey
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
Manfred Eigen
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Every time I sit down to write, I need to commit to a word count goal, otherwise I waste too much time editing and re-editing my previous work, staring dreamily off into space, pretending that I'm thinking profound, poetic thoughts when really I'm just thinking, 'Look at me being a writer! I'm so happy I'm a writer!'
Liane Moriarty
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I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people.
Kathleen Quinlan
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Traumatized people have a tendency to superimpose their trauma on everything around them and have trouble deciphering whatever is going on around them.
Bessel van der Kolk
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You can't go into parenthood as a battle wearing armour. It doesn't work that way.
Jamie Parker
