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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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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I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.
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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.
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I have always cited the decision by director Stephen Frears to shoot 'Mrs. Henderson Presents' before my script of 'The Queen' as the reason for my taking the plunge as a playwright.
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I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
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No matter how you feel about your extended family or family gatherings you will be attending. This is because now the ultimate reason for attending family gatherings is for your children to have the time of their lives with their cousins. Little kids love their cousins. I’m not being cute or exaggerating here. Cousins are like celebrities for little kids. If little kids had a People magazine, cousins would be on the cover. Cousins are the barometers of how fun a family get-together will be. “Are the cousins going to be there? Fun!
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There are people who specialise in lettering, and I've had my hand lettering made into a digital font. I picked up a copy of the 'Dandy' the other week, and I was amazed to see that it was completely lettered in my hand-lettering font. It was quite a thrill, really, having been a 'Dandy' reader years and years ago.
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People don't read me and say, 'Oh, it's so clean and elegant.'