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Jewell Parker Rhodes Quotes

While the books I read as a child lacked diversity in the strict sense, they didn't lack values. Reading, I didn't see me externally, but I felt me - my humanity.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1954

Topics

Diversity Child Me Reading Humanity

I don't teach kids to be No. 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be No. 1; that's not it. You don't have to be No. 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.

Jim Brown

Good People You Teach Tell Kids

I didn't go Hollywood on the outside with flashy cars, upstairs maids and mink-covered bathroom fixtures. I went Hollywood on the inside, and that's worst of all. I tried to avoid being natural. I lowered my voice. I copied the mannerisms of other stars. I struck poses.

Joan Caulfield

Stars Voice Go Hollywood Bathroom

I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel.

Jess Walter

Think Irony Would Idea I Think Were

There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing.

John Foster

Myself Curious People Speak American

The history of trying to start a daily where there already is one is that it has never worked.

John Morton

Daily History Start Trying Never

When I was a young artist, and I would go look at other artists' career retrospectives, and I was often disappointed with the lack of story line... What was missing to me was the story of where the artist came from and how they got to where they were.

Robert Gober

Me Story Artist Look Career Young

Stay in college, kids. Otherwise, you may become an umpire.

Andy Roddick

College You Become May Stay Kids

A slighted woman knows no bounds.

John Vanbrugh

Woman Knows Bounds Slighted

I haven't reported in grand detail on rituals of American life, road journeys or malls or the death of steel-manufacturing towns. I think this is because I feel a degree of alienation that I cannot combat.

Amitava Kumar

Life Death Detail Road Think Feel

I am privileged to be at the right end of violins: not the end holding it but to listen to it.

Roger Moore

I Am End Listen Right Holding Am

Every man's closet must contain a trench coat. It's hard for any gentleman not to look dashing when clad in this swashbuckling style.

Roger Stone

Style Man Gentleman Look Hard Coat

My auditions for drama school were miserable, but one thing I had on my side, although I had no experience or skill or training, was that I wanted to learn everything.

Rupert Friend

Experience Training School Learn