Jesmyn Ward Quotes

People are not afraid to be activists, to be vocal. And I think back to my years in college, and that wasn't the case.

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• I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Father
  • Me
  • Friendly

• I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • Work
  • Music
  • Real

• Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • Love
  • Medicine

• As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Up
  • World
  • Thoughts

• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• In life go straight and turn right.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Life
  • Go
  • Turn

• I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Summer

• Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Want
  • Feel
  • Run

• Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Control
  • Wish
  • Process

• I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Travel
  • Will

• It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • People
  • Age
  • Parents

• There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • You
  • Know
  • Just

• I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Believe
  • Man

• I strongly believe that the Legislature should not be interfering in private medical decisions.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Believe
  • Decisions
  • Medical

• The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Science
  • Interesting
  • Me

• The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

  

  Maimonides
  • Reason
  • Human
  • Limit

• If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • May
  • She
  • Fun

• Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Morning
  • Always
  • Tired

• Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that.

  

  Emily Blunt
  • People
  • Good
  • True

• It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

  

  Eric Hoffer
  • Desire

• Nothing can silence me as long as I am alive. I don’t give any kind of excuse. If I cannot come out of China or I cannot go in to China this is not going to change my belief. But when I am there, I am in this condition: I see it, I see people who need help. Then you know, I just want to offer my possibility to help them.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Long
  • Help

• I'm expressing myself by acting. I'm learning about myself and making a living. I hope to do much more of it, so I can contribute my share to the world.

  

  James Remar
  • World
  • Hope
  • Learning

• I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my studio. There are books around me all the time.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Time
  • Art
  • Car

• People are not afraid to be activists, to be vocal. And I think back to my years in college, and that wasn't the case.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • College