N. K. Jemisin Quotes
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I've always wanted my own fragrance; Avon pairs with the way I think: what they do and represent, what they do for women, and the good causes such as domestic violence, and breast cancer.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I am a very selfish person.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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I myself was completely torn by the decision to start Teach For America. There was a voice in my head telling me not to do it - to take a more normal path. I did have one thing going for me, which was that I had been rejected from all the other jobs I'd applied to.
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One of the signs of a bad coworker is a pattern of persistent undermining - intentionally hindering a colleague's success, reputation, or relationships.
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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
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I'm constantly coming up with new strategies for getting to the mental place where writing is so joyous and playful that I almost can't help putting the words down.
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I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.
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The Disney deal for us, we are very excited to be their Pay 1 partner, where we are a big licensing partner of Disney all over the world in all different windows.
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Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes, and they all have opinions. In Hollywood there are, like, 20 snakes.
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I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.
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Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
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Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.
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It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.
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The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.
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Models need to be unionized.
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What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.
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I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don't have a lot of furniture in our house, so it's really simple. And we're trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don't want to get isolated to do that.
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There’s not such thing as magic that does no harm.
