Natasha Trethewey Quotes
The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Think and grow rich.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
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Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
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Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
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A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
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I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.
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A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.
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If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
