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Jewell Parker Rhodes Quotes

When a parent says about a book, 'That's not my child's world,' I remind them of the future. Social fluency will be the new currency of success. Not experiencing diversity challenges our kids' future in the global work force. It handicaps them from making America and the world more livable and just.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1954

Topics

Work Success Future Diversity Child

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

Me Black Musicians Jazz Prejudice

I think the way you make a movie dictates the movie that you make.

Think You Way Make I Think Movie

Value-first is a perception. If your customer does not perceive it as value, then it's not very valuable.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Value Perception Customer Your Very

There are all sorts of people who will say disobliging things about me. I don't mind that. I would rather people said, 'This is a man that sticks to his principles, not a man who's worried about popularity.'

Man People Mind Me Said Say

Someone's going to be able to take good care of my sister. She knows how to be taken care of.

Good Sister Care Someone She Going

Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor - women can't drive, things like that. That's about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness.

Women Humor Writing Drive You Look

I go train, and like with Conan, I'm in leather, and with Drogo, I'm in leather or armor or something else. I'm not in my adidas sweat suit or my matching tracksuit pants to go work out. I got too busy of a day. I've got my boots.

Work Day Busy Boots Train Sweat

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

Arthur C. Clarke

Alone Space Think Universe Sometimes

I'm action-oriented.

Ideas Manifest Discovery Will Lead

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.

Best Yourself Fun Saying Mystery

I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.

Family Freedom Personality Fun More

In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldn't call on me.

Teacher Me Hide Acting Class Corner

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