Jesmyn Ward Quotes
Faulkner's characters, too, were uneducated. They were deprived, but they were allowed to have very rich inner lives. I want to advocate for that, for inner lives that are much more complicated and more poetic than we think.
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I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would love to remind them how much they pay in federal taxes to support programs for Mississippi and South Dakota.
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It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.
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When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.
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Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.
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I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
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I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed.
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There are so many young women in film school right now, and it's just about foreign sales companies, domestic sales companies agreeing to finance films directed by and starring women.
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Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
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You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher's salary now. I always thought about that. And it's a very difficult career, a short career, as a pro athlete.
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I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards.
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Cary Grant and I were doing a play in New York. He had a crush on me. Whenever we went to a party, he would always sit on the floor beside me. I thought that was kind of beautiful, like that's where he wanted to be.
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The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be somewhere without a view, especially if it is very different from what you're writing.
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I would honestly say I'm in the turtle's race. My journey is a marathon.
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I've always had a chip on my shoulder. It kind of drives me. It's something that allows me to train harder, train longer, work better.
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I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young.
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The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.
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I almost envy people who say whatever they want.
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I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles.
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We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we have already formed about him, and in the complete picture of him we compose in our minds those ideas have certainly the principal place.
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I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.
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Faulkner's characters, too, were uneducated. They were deprived, but they were allowed to have very rich inner lives. I want to advocate for that, for inner lives that are much more complicated and more poetic than we think.
