Jean Toomer Quotes
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
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I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
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I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.
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With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes to reflect new therapeutic options.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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I, for one, am actually still incredibly idealistic, and I still can credibly or very strongly believe that you have to keep fighting for what you believe in, because it's only when you stop that you've truly lost.
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My father is my inspiration.
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I listen to music cinematically. I think about music and how it would make me feel when it's put to an image, a moving image, and I love it.
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I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight,New earths and skies and seas around, And in my day the sun doth pale his light.
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Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
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There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.
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When I'm on the court, I feel all problems go away.
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I'm nuts, I'm rich, and boy, do I love a fight!
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There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
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We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.
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If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
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I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are.
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I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.
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Sometimes when I am in a situation that I have never been in, I kind of pull back a little bit to observe things; it doesn't really last long though I have to. I've resigned to myself to the fact that I have to be me.
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The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace
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When someone hurts you, your first thought may be to wish you had never met them at all. But remember that even those who've hurt you, came into your life for a reason, and left for a reason. It’s for the best and healing starts with acceptance.
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I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.
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Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.
