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.
Quotes to Explore
-
The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
-
I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
-
I read part of it all the way through.
-
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.
-
I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
-
I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
-
We encourage whistleblowers to come forward in instances where the government is a victim.
-
Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
-
It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
-
I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
-
I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
-
I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
-
When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
-
I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
-
Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
-
When I recall my teachers at school, I realise that half of them were abnormal. . . . We pupils of old Austria were brought up to respect old people and women. But on our professors we had no mercy; they were our natural enemies. The majority of them were somewhat mentally deranged, and quite a few ended their days as honest-to-God lunatics! . . . I was in particular bad odor with the teachers. I showed not the slightest aptitude for foreign languages - though I might have, had not the teacher been a congenital idiot. I could not bear the sight of him.
-
First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.
-
Everybody gathered at my Aunt Hannah's house, and we sat around and talked, ate, drank and told lies. That's what people do, and I just sat there and listened.
-
Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.
-
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.
