Jesmyn Ward Quotes
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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I like things simple.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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My favorite ski slope is the kind that winds up at the cafeteria. My children, though, usually insist that I get out and take on a few expert runs, in a game called 'Let's See if We Can Get Our Inheritance Early.'
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Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
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It's a pitch you can extend your career with because it's less taxing on your body. It's like dog years, but in reverse. I feel like I'm 27 or 26 in knuckleball years!
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If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.
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My first film - a challenging role and completely different from the persona that was created in Italy. I was this super energetic, vibrant, happy, volumed hair, fitted dresses, the whole Italian va-va-voom thing. And the role was a girl that was really provoking society with being unnecessarily violent - just trying to see what people's limits are. It's a really dark tunnel to get to being nasty, being full of hate. When people hate there's a big sadness and rage within them, so it was interesting to go that dark with my first experience.
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People don't read me and say, 'Oh, it's so clean and elegant.'
