Jesmyn Ward Quotes
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You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.
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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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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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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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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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Then he saw his ghosts glitter with golden hands,the Emperor sliding up and up from his tombalongside Charles. These things are not obliterate.White gobs spitten for mockery;and I too shall have CY GIST, written over me.
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Expectations are high. Clearly I am not a superman. There is a little bit of euphoria in India. I have a wife and two kids.
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Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession.
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The population is in a constant state of enforced dislocation. So let us hope that a totally new culture will come out of this.
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As to love our neighbour as we love ourselves is the great law of Christianity, so it is the great precept of nature to love ourselves only as we love our neighbour, or what comes to the same thing, as our neighbour is capable of loving us.
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In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little.
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And when you are poor and have to carryThe Christian creed and wife and childrenAll on your back, it is too much!That's why I made the Elixir of Youth,Which landed me in the jail at PeoriaBranded a swindler and a crookBy the upright Federal Judge!
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I'm past 75, I still walk, and I don't dye my hair blond, and I don't touch it up.
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I'm very acrobatic. I can do backflips and all that crazy stuff.
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I'm kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what's around the corner.
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One of the ways my first novel failed was that I was too in love with my characters.
