Jesmyn Ward Quotes

Before Hurricane Katrina, I always felt like I could come back home. And home was a real place, and also it had this mythical weight for me. Because of the way that Hurricane Katrina ripped everything away, it cast that idea in doubt.

Jesmyn Ward

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I think a perfect-color scarf really brings out your whole skin tone, lip color, and everything else.

Jessica Jung

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In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input.

Stephen LaBerge

PerceptionDreamSpecialDifference

It's pretty clear to me that working as a director for hire agrees with me. I like it. The films that have come out of that, I personally like better than the ones that didn't.

Steven Soderbergh

MeBetterDirectorOutPrettyHire

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

Robert Burton

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When we were filming the first 'Magic Mike,' we obviously had a limited budget; it was an independent film. And we would entertain extras in between takes.

Matt Bomer

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I think I've got a real love thing going. I love people, I love life, and I love nature, and I can't see why other people can't be like that.

Marvin Gaye

LifeNatureLovePeopleThinkWhy

As a woman, I have access to hit women in a way that men might not be able to hit them with jokes. I don't mean physically hit. But you know, because I'm a woman, I can say things about women because I know what it's like to be a woman, if that makes any sense.

Michelle Wolf

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The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

Don Marquis

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The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

Diogenes

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I was a pretty nerdy kid. I was pretty nerdy. I'm still kind of nerdy. I have all of the worst qualities of being a nerd - all of the affect and none of the smarts. I'm a useless nerd! That's pretty bad.

Claire Danes

BadKindWorstUselessKidPretty

I feel as a brand I'm here to be around for a long time.

Serena Williams

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I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.

Lynda Barry

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