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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Years ago, I tore out a Nike ad featuring Allyson Felix and Maria Sharapova looking super fierce and tough. I always told my family that I wanted to be like them someday, so to come home to my apartment and see boxes of Nike gear stacked higher than my doorknob is pretty much a dream come true.
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The way Yes works is when we have a new member come in, as in Jon Davison, it's appropriate that we see what differences we can get out of a new contributing member in order to keep Yes interesting.
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Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had: when they started having their own kids, they didn't want them to have a poor educational experience; they wanted them to enjoy school.
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Institutionalized discrimination is bad for people and for societies. Widespread discrimination is also bad for economies. There is clear evidence that when societies enact laws that prevent productive people from fully participating in the workforce, economies suffer.
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I would love to see public option. If we had public option, then people would have that ability to supplement that public option with an additional health plan.
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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.
