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 can create for others.
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I always wanted to be an actor, even when I was a little kid. When I used to run away from home, I'd go to movies and sit all night watching Kirk Douglas. When I was 16, I tried getting into the Actors Studio, and they told me to get lost. I said 'I'll come back when I'm a man,' and I came back when I was 30.
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To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.
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Now when I was a teenager, I was angsty as any teenager was, but after 17 years of having a mother who was in and out of my life like a yo-yo and a father who was faceless, I was angry.
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Moving from a first to a second album is an incredibly transitional time for any band because you never get to make one in a vacuum like you did with your debut.
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My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.
