Aja Naomi King Quotes
As artists, we thrive when we can express our comfort and our discomfort. If a certain scene is really challenging for us, if we're in an environment where we feel safe, we're able to do our work.
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I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head.
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History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
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Look at the way sports, music and film have become driving forces of popular culture. Fashion is the fourth pillar.
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The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.
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Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.
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The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.
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When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.
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Tammy Faye said, I am so happy that Jessica Hahn is so ugly, because now I don't feel so bad.
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Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.
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I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger.
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There certainly are some good aspects to Common Core.
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When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging out with outspoken opponents to your views.
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As artists, we thrive when we can express our comfort and our discomfort. If a certain scene is really challenging for us, if we're in an environment where we feel safe, we're able to do our work.
