Jesmyn Ward Quotes
I always think about Faulkner, and I would argue that there can be a difference between the way that characters express themselves internally and externally.
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.
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Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.
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To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
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I want everyone in the Republican party who opposed me to know this: you are welcome to join this people's crusade. Come aboard. You are both welcome and needed. If we unite, we'll win - and we'll rebuild New York.
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Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
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I'm trying to stay focused on what I'm doing. I don't want a whole lot of things going on - people to call back, or text messages or whatever. I chill out, relax a little bit, and then I don't have those issues.
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This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.
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I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount.
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I have learned that I will not pay any attention to anything people say about my movies, because people say things that are all over the place.
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I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
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You can expect nothing in being a musician, and you have to be just very thankful every time it goes positively for you.
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I want to go back to the Pantanal in Brazil. I've never been to sub-Saharan Africa. I'd like to take my Caravan over there and do a flying safari. I've never flown to Alaska.
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I'm Russian: I'm into men, diamonds, and caviar.
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As a little girl, I was always shy, but in front of the camera I wasn't.
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
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If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace.
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It's good to be on the power list, but I don't see a practical use of it except when people introduce me to audiences.
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You can latch onto theological ideas that are, in fact, not accurate, and refuse to let them go. I think we've seen this a few times in church history.
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Writing is an outlet, but it’s not an outlet of escape. People keep a journal when they want to escape. I write to rub my face in it.
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The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call.
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I always think about Faulkner, and I would argue that there can be a difference between the way that characters express themselves internally and externally.
