Natasha Trethewey Quotes
I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
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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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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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I have grown up loving Shakespeare.
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The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked.
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I don't consider my homosexuality a political thing. I consider it a sexual and spiritual thing. I only started going to political rallies to meet women.
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The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
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My illness has changed me - I've always thought "life is short and I wanna make as much of it as I can," but I really don't have time to mess around. This has really been a wake-up call in terms of what's important, and I'm working hard to figure that out. I need to get better at not doing favors for people all the time. It's hard because there's so many people who have helped me get to the point where I'm in a band that people wanna come see, or where people pay money to see me lecture.
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I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
