Natasha Trethewey Quotes
I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.
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We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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If you're running on fumes, you get to a point of diminishing results. Get some rest.
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My audience is made up of such bizarre, rare people. They're very sparse and scattered; it's not like a huge body of people.
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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.
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The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.
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I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
