N. K. Jemisin Quotes

They live forever, but many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life’s value.

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• I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.

  

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• If the IOC would move the Olympic hockey tournament to the summer, that would be great. We'd be thrilled to have our players participate because then it doesn't affect our season.

  

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• I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

  

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• I'm here today because I hated everything else.

  

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• My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.

  

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• Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

  

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• I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.

  

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• 'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.

  

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• The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.

  

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• The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.

  

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• Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!

  

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• When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.

  

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• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

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• You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.

  

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• I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.

  

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• I read like a crazy person, I play the piano, and I'm a photographer. I always say my photography keeps me sane. I spend a lot of time in the darkroom. It's a very solitary, quiet life when I'm not working.

  

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• There's something about getting onstage in a play where the actor tells the story, beginning, middle, and end, the way they want to tell it. For me, it's the most powerful place to be, and it's the most empowering place to be.

  

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• As actors, you become an expert at starting over.

  

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• And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.

  

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• They live forever, but many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life’s value.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Life
  • Live
  • Why