Jesmyn Ward Quotes
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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Anya Hindmarch is indeed a handbag designer; she has the requisite fabulous life, tasteful home, and loving husband. She is also beautiful and self-deprecating, and has five children aged 5 to 20 and a philanthropic bent which spans causes from cancer care to Britain's Conservative Party.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.
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I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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I associated excellence in writing with New York City.
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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
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In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
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When it feels scary to jump, that’s exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying the same place your whole life. And that I can’t do.
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You are always invested in a film, but there is always a different feeling you get when you are portraying a character that is based on real life and you are re-telling events that actually took place.
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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
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Leaders don't change their positions mid-debate. They welcome scorn from the masses because it creates the opportunity for dialogue.
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
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A lot of times, real life is more surreal than writing.
