Jennifer Wayne Quotes
I write, I sing, I play... I Amazing Race! Broken Bow recording artist... I'm one third of Runaway June
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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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In general, I'm rubbish in heels. I love them, and I own a lot because it's like being in a sweet shop: they're pretty. But I'm not good in them. I don't walk nicely in heels.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.
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! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.
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I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
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I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
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At any given moment, it's not about where we are supposed to be. It's about what work, which relationship, what decision I take. Every moment counts. Every decision counts. And if we look at our decisions in life as such, we stop battling and start winning.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl.
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Every story is organic, and every story finds its own ending.
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Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.
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When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics is what T.S. Eliot said: 'Good poetry is felt before it is heard.' I'm a believer in that. It's those moments when you sit yourself down, and talk to yourself in the mirror.
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I'm looking for challenges, and as always, what matters is the script, the character and the director.
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I write, I sing, I play... I Amazing Race! Broken Bow recording artist... I'm one third of Runaway June
