Jesmyn Ward Quotes

I didn't start really focusing on writing until I was 24.

Jesmyn Ward

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I do favor guest workers, H1B visas and student visas.

Jim Kolbe

StudentWorkersGuestFavor

The inability of middle-class people to receive loans in developing countries has had a stifling effect on economic growth and prosperity around the globe.

Joe Lonsdale

GrowthPeopleProsperityEconomic

The backseat produced the sexual revolution.

Jerry Rubin

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When I left my band, I had to start over from scratch, and that's a scary place to go.

Johnny Colt

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My music isn't rappity-rap-rap-rap.

Travis Scott

Music

When you're making an adaptation, you have to make content for the fans; otherwise, you'll get something that won't even be accepted by the mainstream. You want to make something that the fans will approve and the mainstream will enjoy.

Masi Oka

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That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.

Monica Seles

SuccessFunKeyKey To Success

I always try to see my weakness, work on it, to be better as a person and a player, everything.

Mohamed Salah

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I feel like how I live my life is my own political statement.

LP

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I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently.

Lucas Neff

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I was shy and a hard worker, so acting was a way to focus whatever nervous energy I was experiencing onto a goal.

Deborah Ann Woll

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I don't think Fox News or Rush Limbaugh need Clinton it turns out. I think there's a hunger out there for - whether it's on the left or right - a more lively and provocative type of political journalism. I think Salon and Fox on the other side have both benefited from that.

David Talbot

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