N. K. Jemisin Quotes
Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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I guess I crave stability.
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I love 'Annie Hall'; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has been such an inspiration to me. She always brings humour, but complexity, and I love watching her on screen. She's got real charisma.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home.
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It's motivation. Some people are gifted at specific things, but I had to develop. The thing I'm most talented at is the ability to learn.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
