N. K. Jemisin Quotes
It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.
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As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.
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Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.
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I always put on M.A.C. Prep and Primer before anything.
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Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.
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I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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Men need to know the elemental challenges that sea and mountains present. They need to know what it is to be alive and to survive when great storms come. They need to unlock the secrets of streams, lakes, and canyons and to find how these treasures are veritable storehouses of inspiration. They must experience the sense of mastery of adversity. They must find a peak or a ridge that they can reach under their own power alone.
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What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title - whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or anything actor.
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Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
