Natasha Trethewey Quotes
My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I think that what I'd like to instil is that if you join the youth theatre, it's a gateway into greater career prospects.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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If you're studying from a book and trying to listen in on a conversation at the same time, those are two separate projects, each started and maintained by distinct circuits in the brain. Pay more attention to one for a moment and you're automatically paying less attention to the other.
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People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.
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I know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real one and the transparent one. I look for what's on the inside edge of the transparent one.
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The Trade Center itself held - and holds - a special place, I think, in the hearts and minds of people in law enforcement - the fact that it did not fall in 1993. Ramzi Yousef's goal was to topple the Twin Towers into each other so that more people died than had died at Hiroshima.
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If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset.
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My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.
