Jesmyn Ward Quotes
I grew up in a lot of different homes when I was younger: my parents rented trailers and small, boxy houses set high on cement block pillars.
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I think we know how to do Mars.
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I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
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Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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The means that make one qualified for enquiry are meditation, yoga, etc. One should gain proficiency in these through graded practice and thus secure a stream of mental modes that is natural and helpful.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
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My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.
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As you get older, the summer is less of a vacation and more of a training period by yourself away from the team. It's exciting for me. I felt like I've been really getting better as far as my conditioning every single season as I get older.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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I know what it takes to move cities forward. It's not about rhetoric and great speaking, but it takes relationships.
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Getting snail mail is one of my favorite indulgences, and I think receiving mail is actually a common joy.
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A woman needs to be put together more than a man. If she isn't, she looks like she's not up for the job. There's a different standard. Those are the rules, and I have to live by them.
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Patience is idling your motor when you feel like stripping a gear.
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I grew up in a lot of different homes when I was younger: my parents rented trailers and small, boxy houses set high on cement block pillars.
