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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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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For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.
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We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
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I like to style myself, as my first job out of university was working at 'Vogue' magazine in NYC, and I grew up attending the collections with my mother, so I have a particular aesthetic, which is classic glamour with a twist.
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I think Dirk [Gently] thinks that he's a brilliant detective, but he's the worst detective, ever. He does have this particular skill, which I suppose you might call a really bad superpower because it's just not very helpful. He is able to sense the connections between things and he's nearly always right, but the problem is that he never knows what to do with any of those messages that he receives from the universe, so he just acts on things and gets himself into terrible trouble, all the time.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain you feel when you know it's time to connect with your parents or your God or your child or your past or your future... and you don't do it.
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My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.
