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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'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.
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I think till I reached my mid-30s, I just rebelled and rebelled. But eventually, the one thing I did pick up from mom was paying attention to my hair. We all put eggs, oil, dahi, even beer in our hair.
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As well a well-wrought urn becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.
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I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or 'incentives' for skill.
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The first Halloween was very well made. The second one was also well made, though I didn't like it as well as the first one. The third one had nothing to do with the series at all and perhaps shouldn't have been made at all.
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The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
