Tamala Jones Quotes
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.
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The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
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'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
