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Jesmyn Ward Quotes

At one time, when I was eight years old, my mother and father, my brother and my sisters - we had to move back in with my grandmother, and there were 13 of us living in one house.

Jesmyn Ward

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american

Topics

Father Mother Time Brother House

And I think we as a people need to stop being disingenuous about what the Constitution provides for. It does not provide for this all-encompassing power that we've seen exercised over the last several decades. It's what's gotten us into this bankrupt position.

Joe Miller

Power People Constitution Think Stop

You can do good work simply staying up all night and eating nothing but junk food, but probably not in the long term.

John Mulaney

Work Good Food Night Eating You

'Black Swan' does what Hollywood movies have always done - it spends its energies on getting some surface things right while getting everything important wrong. Darren Aronofsky, the director, applies the same techniques and the same sensibility here as he did with 'The Wrestler,' only with a prettier protagonist.

Robert Gottlieb

Black Wrong Done Important Movies

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.

Robert Hall

History Unity Attention Individual

For me, St. Petersburg is the city that I can never escape because it has this special energy, even a dark energy. It keeps pulling me back.

Anna Netrebko

City Me Energy Back Dark I Can

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

Jean Rostand

Man Become Equal Origin Destined He

In all honesty, I grew up a certain way. I never had to worry about money... that was my reality.

Tori Spelling

Honesty Money Reality Worry Way Up

The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom.

Rob Corddry

Freedom Jealous Media Magic Want Us

For me soccer provides so many emotions, a different feeling every day. I've had the good fortune to take part in major competitions like the Olympics, and winning the World Cup was also unforgettable. We lost in the Olympics and won in the World Cup, and I'll never forget either feeling.

Ronaldinho

Good Day Me Winning World Every Day

I take it very seriously, the photographic craft.

Juergen Teller

Seriously Craft Take Photographic

In 2013, we opened our first international office in London and established a European hub in Berlin.

Jon Oringer

London First Office Berlin Our Hub

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

Jon Stewart

House Way Land Thanksgiving Everyone