Jesmyn Ward Quotes
History and socio-economic inequality and all those things had, like, borne down upon my family and my community and really sort of narrowed our choices.
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.
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You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
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If you knew when you were going to die, wouldn't you make your life more worthwhile?
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My home studio is my private instrument for me only. It's not intended to record anyone but me.
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Those of us who preach the Scriptures, along with being nourished by it ourselves, have to figure out along with our congregations how we can incarnate the gospel in our community, or we will preach to a religious ghetto.
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Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.
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History and socio-economic inequality and all those things had, like, borne down upon my family and my community and really sort of narrowed our choices.
