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Jesmyn Ward Quotes

Sometimes, you get tired of fighting. I think you just sort of come to this realization that yes, that you will get tired, but that doesn't mean that you can give up the fight.

Jesmyn Ward

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american

Topics

Fight Tired Think Fighting You Mean

Usually when you're doing concepts for a character, you just try a couple different things to see what sticks.

Joe Madureira

Character Doing You Try See Things

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Natural Too Unnatural

When I knew I was pregnant four years ago with a boy, a friend suggested I call him Cary, but I initially resisted. There was only one Cary Grant. But a week before he was due, I started thinking it would be wonderful to pass the name on to him. And anyway, my father wasn't Cary to me. He was Dad.

Jennifer Grant

Friend Father Me Thinking Name Week

I feel a lot of life in me and a lot of creative energy, and I think it's better suited somewhere it can run free.

Jenny Slate

Life Creative Me Free Energy Better

I guess you can say that every actor is a 'character actor' on some level. But I think some actors have a wider range. I think that's how you get that mantle.

John Hawkes

Character Think You Say Actor Level

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Art Find Know Say Listen Critics

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

Stephen Cole Kleene

Mathematics Philosophy Where Split

War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.

Smedley Butler

Peace War End You Stop Resolutions

I don't have one favourite band. I like everything.

Sidney Crosby

Band Everything Like Favourite

I'm proud of what I look like. I'm proud that I look like my mom.

Lisa Guerrero

Mom Proud Look Like

I'm not going to worry about proving people wrong. My goal isn't to prove people wrong. You can't worry about what other people say.

Draymond Green

People Worry You Goal Wrong Say

I gave everything I had. All your feelings, all your energy, you put everything out there. And you come up short.

Chris Bosh

Energy Short You Feelings Everything