Jesmyn Ward Quotes
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I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
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I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.
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If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
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I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.
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Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.
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The Internet is the vehicle we're driving to share our visuals, outrage, and ideas around the world.
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world.
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The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home.
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I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
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At our house, we'd always open presents with our Christmas records playing. 'Little Drummer Boy' was one of my favorites when I was a kid because it was about a kid.
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I live in the South; there are Confederate flags everywhere.
