Natasha Trethewey Quotes
I think often people don't realize the great diversity of Southern writing because in their minds, if you're not from the South, it can seem regional and small, and of course that's not the case at all when you start to read the work.
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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.
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I hope never to retire. I write so many because it's the thing I like to do most - to write. And if you write every day, you just naturally get a lot of books.
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I tend to absorb a lot of what other people are feeling.
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I agreed to go on a date with a nice young man who was a former student of my uncle, who taught music in high schools and colleges. The nice young man took me to a party at his sister's, where I met people who introduced me to virtually all the elements of my future.
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People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.
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I think often people don't realize the great diversity of Southern writing because in their minds, if you're not from the South, it can seem regional and small, and of course that's not the case at all when you start to read the work.
