Tayari Jones Quotes
I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.
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I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.
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My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.
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The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.
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When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
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Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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I think people like it when you have a bit of personality.
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My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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I get notes posted on my windscreen wipers and through my letterbox.
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At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
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A playwright lives in an occupied country… And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
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Machiavelli is not concerned with how men do live merely in order to describe it; his intention is rather, on the basis of knowledge of how men do live, to teach princes how they ought to rule and even how they ought to live.
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Be You, Live Civil was a tour that I started, and it's just always something that I've been to myself. 'Be you, live civil' is like 'live my life.' That was my short version of saying to live my life.
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I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.
