N. K. Jemisin Quotes
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Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.
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What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
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I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.
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I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.
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If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.
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Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
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I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.
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I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.
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When I was small, in the early '70s, my mother took me to see 'Cooley High.'
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If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.
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Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.
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Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.
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I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
