Jesmyn Ward Quotes
I feel a lot of pressure when I'm writing because I know, you know, if they looked at a synopsis of the book, what they read could only confirm all the stereotypes that they have about us and about people like us.
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It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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'Haraamkhor' is a low budget film. We are not worried about the box office because our film is already in profit. It's got a strong content that will reach people's heart.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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You don't want someone who can't tell the difference between having a different opinion and dismissing your opinion.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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There's a reason why people question the trustworthiness of Hillary Clinton, and that's because they're paying attention.
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Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.
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I don't want to be in competition with anyone. I'm friends with women I work with and I applaud any success they have in their careers. And I'm not just saying that because it sounds good, I genuinely want people to do well and have success.
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I feel a lot of pressure when I'm writing because I know, you know, if they looked at a synopsis of the book, what they read could only confirm all the stereotypes that they have about us and about people like us.
