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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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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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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Arguably, it was the introduction of international non-proliferation treaties in the late '80s that finally led to the missiles being removed from Greenham Common.
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One of the things about Fleetwood Mac is, when we're not together, we don't talk a lot or keep in touch. We keep a healthy distance.
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You are the only one who creates in your experience - no one else. Everything that comes to you comes by the power of your thought. If there are changes you would like to make, it will be of great value to begin telling a different story - not only about your body, but about all subjects that have been troubling to you. As you begin to positively focus, getting to feel so good about so many subjects, you will begin to feel the power that creates worlds flowing through you.
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We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
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Education is preparation to live completely.
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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur in your present, allowing you to behave in entirely new fashions. Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also past conduct.
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I'm always curious about other writers' routines.
