Jesmyn Ward Quotes

I dabbled in writing, wrote really bad poetry in high school. I also took a few writing classes when I was an undergrad at Stanford. I was so intimidated.

Jesmyn Ward

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I think you would have to be a nihilist to say that we are not making progress on cancer, just like you'd have to be hubristically optimistic to say that we have conquered cancer.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.

Simon Mawer

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If I had my choice, I would be writing by typewriter. I worked on newspapers for 10 years. I typed with the touch system, and unfortunately, you can't keep typewriters going today. You have to take the ribbons back to be re-inked. You have to - it's a horrible search to try to find missing parts. So I went to the computer.

Tom Wolfe

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Philiosophers like Hume and Descartes and Hobbes saw things similarly. They thought that mental images and ideas were actually the same thing. There are those today that dispute that, and lots of debates about how the mind works, but for me it's simple: Mental images, for most of us, are central in inventive and creative thinking.

Mary Lou Jepsen

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I was fresh out of drama school and had no idea what I was doing. They hustled me along and Bill Cosby tolerated my rookie behavior. It was great. Once you have 'The Cosby Show' on your resume, you can keep going.

Michael Weatherly

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I'd love to do something a little different than 'Ted.'

Jay Harrington

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To me, it isn't tight sweaters. That's not what rap is. That's not hip-hop at all. Every phase went through changing up their dress styles and all that, but since Run DMC came out, it's been baggy jeans.

DMX

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The first job I had was a Pampers commercial. And I used to go with my father whenever he would do a performance. I remember clinging to his legs, saying, 'Please. Take me with you.'

Christian Slater

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I digress a lot - it's how I experience the world. I would like to write in a way that will convey that to the reader, but also I need clarity.

Claire Messud

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Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

Brene Brown

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If some student belonging to weaker section of society suffers distress, humanity says it must be addressed.

Arun Jaitley

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I went to Alaska as a young man just looking for adventure. And like so many of us in the '70s, we found it.

Tom Bodett

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