Natasha Trethewey Quotes
The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
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We encourage whistleblowers to come forward in instances where the government is a victim.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.
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There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.
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I've seen suffering first-hand, and we have to make sure we relieve people's suffering.
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When people say the words 'singer-songwriter,' I think they have an image in their heads of someone with an acoustic guitar who is a bit woe-is-me. I'd like to think that I'm not one of those. I'm quite a happy person.
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There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways, and whenever it showed a horror film the queue would go all the way down the street and around the corner. 'Isn't it strange how people will pay money to frighten themselves?' I remember Tony [Iommi] saying one day. 'Maybe we should stop doing blues and write scary music instead.'
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
