Jesmyn Ward Quotes
If I'm honest about the people that I love, then I need my characters to live through the same things that the people I love and care about are living with and struggling with.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
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I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.
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This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
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I have a great office.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
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When I turned 50, something clicked in my head and I said, 'I'm not going to live to 100. I'm half-cooked already.' I set the family down and I said, 'Listen everybody, we're now entering the decade of Daddy. We're going to start doing things that I want to do.'
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We believe that when there is a democratic setup, we have a greater voice.
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I think that the actors that I work with feel safer with me. Because they know I understand what they go through and I don't see them as chess pieces.
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Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.
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If I'm honest about the people that I love, then I need my characters to live through the same things that the people I love and care about are living with and struggling with.
