Jesmyn Ward Quotes
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You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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More and more parents and voters have rejected the teachers' union antiquated, top down, one-size-fits-all approach to education and continue to elect candidates who embrace reform that celebrates students and empowers parents.
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I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.
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You are the universe, you aren't in the universe.
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I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
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Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
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'Kahaani' gave me popularity and 'Gangs of Wasseypur' stardom.
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I was raised by two actors in a moment in time - the Seventies - when there was no judgment of characters, no heroes and bad guys.
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I love that I love my job, and from what I'm told, that others who I work with do, too.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
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I strongly support an 'all-of-the-above' energy policy that includes additional development of wind, clean coal, and bio-fuels.
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The only way to advertise is by not focusing on the product.
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I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.
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I've never been a shy person. I've always been able to talk pretty well.
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You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
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Decadence is wonderful.
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Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
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We are a Body of contradiction, flesh-full and fleshless.
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When I made my first film, I think the thing was probably helped me the most was that it was such an unusual thing to do in the early 50s for someone who actually go and make a film. People thought it was impossible. It really is terribly easy. All anybody needs is a camera, a tape recorder, and some imagination.
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There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.
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My favorite subject in high school was English. I love reading and writing, and I felt really supported in this subject, and my least favorite was math, since I felt completely lost.
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I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.
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One of the ways my first novel failed was that I was too in love with my characters.
