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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I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.
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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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As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.
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When I woke up from that dream, brother, I was like, "Okay, I've got to know what that was, what happened." That was not an average dream. I've had some dreams in my days, but not like that. It was way too vivid. Looking back, the reason that dream makes more sense today than it did then is, we are in a digital world. Back then, it was an analog world. Everything was digital in the dream.
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Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.
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Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of drawing this out: I'm thinking of DeLillo's contention in 'Mao II' that terrorists have replaced writers as the people who 'alter the inner-life of the culture.' I thought that was marvellous!
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I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
