Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
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My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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All of us grow.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
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In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.
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Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
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Charity, like the sun, brightens every object on which it shines.
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Music is like the soul of the planet.
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This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
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We are not held accountable for how the economy ravages Congo. Governments aren't held accountable for foreign policies that they exercise there. There are no institutional structures to render justice. The press is very limited. There's very little transparency. You find a symmetry in certain basic human tendencies, and these tendencies are not always noble or beautiful. I think we have an instinct to turn away from that, to not acknowledge it, while it is something that's a part of us. There's a certain tragic and sad side to human nature that, in our quest for beauty, we ignore.
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The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
