N. K. Jemisin Quotes
'I will not beg your forgiveness,' she said. Only her voice betrayed her fear; it was not its usual strong, clear tone. 'I did what I felt was right.''Of course you did,' I said. 'It was the wise thing to do.'
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
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After being nearly eradicated from the lower 48 states by the 1960s, bald eagles were re-introduced to the Adirondacks in the 1980s, and I'm proud to report the view from my home indicates they are flourishing in upstate New York.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.
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The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
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I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbor and playing in the beautiful parks.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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In France, a first lady has no status, and therefore she isn't supposed to do anything else.
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The average Londoner knows just one neighbour. I travel a lot, and I'm always surprised by the strong sense of community in some countries. We've lost something fundamentally human, and we don't even realise it.
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'I will not beg your forgiveness,' she said. Only her voice betrayed her fear; it was not its usual strong, clear tone. 'I did what I felt was right.''Of course you did,' I said. 'It was the wise thing to do.'
