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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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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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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It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.
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When it's one animal, you really do have a tougher time because you've gotta commit to story structures that maybe are difficult to find the range in the animal to tell those stories. There are only so many things they do, if they're living in the natural world, that we can appreciate. There are plenty of things that they do that we don't appreciate.
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No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.
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Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand.
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When I was thirty and perhaps forty, I did not want a wife. It was too much fun being single.
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Happy is harder than money. Anybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn't got money.
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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.
