Jesmyn Ward Quotes

My people are still poor. They're still working class. All of the characters that I write about are inspired by the community that I'm from.

Jesmyn Ward

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Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free.

Andrea Dworkin

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From the time I was 16, I wanted to live in Paris. When I graduated college and didn't have a job, I went to take the LSAT because I didn't know what else to do. I walked out in the middle of the test and eventually found an internship in Paris at L'Oreal.

Maureen Chiquet

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There is much that remains mysterious about why some countries grow rapidly and some grow slowly.

Angus Deaton

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I think there's the apparent lack of subtlety and sort of make-believe anti-sensibility connected with American art. I think this is a style, and it does relate to our culture, and I think it would be anachronistic maybe to pretend to be involved with subtle changes and modulations and things like that, because it's really not part of America.

Roy Lichtenstein

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When I started my hotel company, Joie de Vivre, at the age of 26, I saw this venture as my ticket to freedom.

Chip Conley

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When fans come up to me and Vanessa, they're really sweet and ask for autographs - but once they see the guys, the girls tend to scream.

Ashley Tisdale

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I read all the time, and I'm often struck by something I'm reading.

Alice Munro

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If you have a business idea that's extremely easy to copy, that can often become something of a challenge or problem.

Peter Thiel

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The world is at a big risk from climate change. We have to come up with solutions, to bring in a sustainable economy.

Tulsi Tanti

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I trained as an actor with Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, and Harold Clurman, and those guys set a very high bar.

Martin Landau

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The public doesn't want to hear people complaining about having their picture taken.

Kristen Wiig

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When you take away all the people whose shoulders a CEO stands on, the CEO is just a person.

Howard Lutnick

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