Leslie Jamison Quotes

I completely identify with finding freedom in boundaries. That's why I tend to have more freedom when I write nonfiction over fiction: because I'm running up against actuality and beholden to the truth in a different way.

Leslie Jamison

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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.

Jack White The White Stripes
- People
- Up
- Growing
I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.

Rafael Palmeiro
- Game
- Doing
- Edge
I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.

Bebe Rexha
- People
- World
- Think
Most actors can't make any kind of living.

Viggo Mortensen
- Kind
- Living
- Most
Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.

Abraham Verghese
- Life
- Love
- Medicine
While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.

Park Shin-hye
- Up
- Person
- Too Much