Natasha Trethewey Quotes
My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
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I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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Angela Merkel puts Germany first.
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I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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I didn't imagine getting to 50, let alone still be playing music. When I was 18, I thought it'd all be over by the time I was 21.
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Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together." Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me. Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.
