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 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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Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!
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I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me.
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I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told what to do by a British accent. That's why so many infomercials have British people.
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F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.
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You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that they are all perverted sinners, one way or another, that the whole society is corrupt and rotten and repressed and unconscious that it exhibits its repression in various forms of social sadism.
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Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk.
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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.
