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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Telling a story is like trying to eat grapes with a fork. It's always trying to get away from you. And if you're a good author, and you've challenged yourself, and you're telling big stories, there's more and more that's trying to get away from you simultaneously.
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I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.
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...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters. As your work gets better and your art becomes more important, competition for your gifts will increase and you'll discover that you can be choosier about whom you give them to.
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Let’s dispel with this fiction that @POTUS doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing.
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One of the ways my first novel failed was that I was too in love with my characters.
