Sadie Jones Quotes
When I'm writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids haven't left me.
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It's been clear for some time that FBI Director Comey has lost the confidence of Republicans, Democrats, and broader institutions, and his removal as FBI Director was probably overdue.
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My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband will always believe in them, love them and accept them.
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The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.
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I love what I do professionally, I'm really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.
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Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.
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Just try to focus one game at a time, not worry about points or anything like that. Worry about playing the right way and see what comes of it.
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Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.
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And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.
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Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
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There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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I have the time needed to support the album and tour.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.
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I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.
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When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously.
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To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.
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Work ends up dehumanizing people.
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Historically, America has answered to a higher authority.
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When I'm writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids haven't left me.
