Jenna Morasca Quotes

My family and high school friends were the only people who were with me every step of the way through my mothers' illness. They sat by my side year after year and consoled me. If they ever sent me a bill, I would be paying them off for the rest of my life.

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• A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Women
  • May

• We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • School
  • Kids
  • Interesting

• I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Work
  • Me
  • Really

• This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • People
  • Need
  • Tool

• I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• I like things simple.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Simple
  • Like
  • Things

• I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Want
  • Way
  • Story

• I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Life
  • World
  • Want

• And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

  

  Larry David
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Version

• Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
  • Politics
  • Places
  • Brooklyn

• In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Society
  • Past

• Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • God
  • May
  • Black

• My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Work
  • Education
  • Food

• The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Idea

• Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Working
  • Lucky
  • Incredible

• Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Truth
  • History
  • Story

• Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Nothing
  • Happens
  • Inevitable

• I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
  • Me
  • Walking

• Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Life
  • Father
  • House

• Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

  

  O. Henry
  • True
  • Fate
  • Unknown

• My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart.

  

  Jessica Simpson
  • Heart
  • Job
  • Dad

• Study after study has demonstrated that people are better off financially, healthier, happier if they are married, and indeed, I repeat, if they are formally married as opposed to simply living together.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • People
  • Together
  • Study

• My family and high school friends were the only people who were with me every step of the way through my mothers' illness. They sat by my side year after year and consoled me. If they ever sent me a bill, I would be paying them off for the rest of my life.

  

  Jenna Morasca
  • People
  • Life
  • Family