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 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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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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Nowadays, the truth is, I think a lot of the newer generation of action stars usually are pretty self-deprecating and cool. I mean, Dwayne Johnson is a great example.
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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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As we look back, it seems like willful blindness. The abandonment of the radical economic foundation of the women's and civil-rights movements by the conflation of causes that came to be called political correctness successfully retrained generation of activists in the politics of image, not action.
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The characters that aren't what they seem to be or women who are stronger than people give them credit for or characters you underestimate, I always think are really interesting because there are so many possibilities with them.
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Christians are supposed to be the most forgiving people on the face of the Earth.
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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.
