Jesmyn Ward Quotes
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I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
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During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
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As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.
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Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
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I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.
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Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.
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The fact is, that civilisation requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
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I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer,
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Great trouble breeds great art, I think.
