N. K. Jemisin Quotes
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
Zig Ziglar -
For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
Gary Hume -
I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
Carl Hiaasen -
One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
Nancy Kerrigan -
People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
Quvenzhane Wallis -
I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'
Gayle Forman -
Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.
Madeleine Stowe -
All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
Aaron Levie -
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
Madame de Stael -
I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.
Carlene Carter
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I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.
Laura Bush -
Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.
Maggie Siff -
Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.
H. R. Giger -
I love the scent of jasmine, honeysuckle, and orange blossom. They remind me of gardens and visits to the ocean I would make as a boy.
Narciso Rodriguez -
I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.
Patrick Ewing -
This obedience to the voice of the Earth is more important for our future happiness... than the desires of the moment.
Pope Benedict XVI
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He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn't grief. After all those years, life now seemed like no more than a trap, a maze, not even a maze, just a room that was all walls, no door.
Etgar Keret -
College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
Ossie Davis -
There is no logic to grief.
N. K. Jemisin