Jesmyn Ward Quotes
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Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I have a great office.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.
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One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.
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Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.
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Hey baby, what'cha know good?I'm just gettin' back, but you knew I would.War is hell, when will it end?When will people start gettin' together again?
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Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. Asking in broken Italian which train we are supposed to board at the Venice railway station is far from useless. Indeed, it is better to do that than to remain uncertain and silent and end up back in Budapest rather than in Milan.
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Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
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My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.
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It really bothers me when people say we live in a postracial America.
