Jesmyn Ward Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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I believe women are the glue of everything.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
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It would be great to do another television show that was a multi-camera because the hours are so wonderful and you can be a good mom at the same time. The problem is, there aren't a lot of multi-camera shows that I personally like. My aesthetic is more geared toward single-camera shows.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
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I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century.
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It's nice to be number one on the call sheet.
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People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
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Der Staat muss fördern und darf nicht einschränken. In diesem Sinne muss er Gärtner sein und nicht Zaun. Wir sollten den Menschen zutrauen, dass sie sich engagieren und Verantwortung übernehmen wollen.
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The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.
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The first time I saw America was from my perch on the mast of a Spanish naval ship, where I could spot the Statue of Liberty reaching proudly into the open, endless American sky.
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Irreducible complexity is a problem for Darwinian evolution. Whenever we see these complex functional systems we realise that they have to be designed.
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Every bathroom in my house will ultimately have a Toto bidet in it.
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The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.
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I'm always curious about other writers' routines.
