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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When I first entered the corporate world, doing good and making money were seen as separate and contradictory threads. Challenging that notion set my career - and life - on a new course.
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When I was a kid, going to Universal Studios, which was all I wanted to do, all the time, there was a show that was all the monsters, and I loved that show. I was obsessed with Dracula. I was obsessed with Frankenstein. I was obsessed with the Wolfman.
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I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I can give you a long list of books which should have been best sellers but they aren't. How can you buy a book if you haven't heard of it?
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Death's not one of those things that frighten the life out of me. Getting up on stage with the curtain going up frightens me more.
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I'm always curious about other writers' routines.
