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Jessamyn West Quotes

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: July 18, 1902 - February 23, 1984

Topics

You Nothing Leave Dear About

I'm from a small town on the bottom edge of Mississippi, very near New Orleans and the Louisiana border. My family has lived there for generations.

Family Small Border Small Town Edge

I don't ordinarily do television because I don't like some of the things projected on it.

Television Things Because Like Some

Getting trade policy right is huge for our economy and huge for Maryland. This is about creating Maryland jobs by selling Maryland products to Asia, moving right from Western Maryland farms out through the Port of Baltimore.

Moving Selling Creating Economy Out

A country that has really resonated with me and I was really impressed with was Israel. I found that the whole country had a very special atmosphere. I was there to perform, but it was one of the few places that I've visited over the years that I had some free time to explore, and I was hugely impressed by all the religious history there.

History Time Me Free Country Places

When I started as an actor, I kind of started with a couple features. I've been waiting for the opening.

Waiting Kind Actor Opening Started

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Truth Truth Is Die You Too Much Eat

Most of the things we are afraid will happen never do. Something to think about.

Robin S. Sharma

Think Will Never Afraid Happen Most

I didn't take a lot of crap from people, and I didn't follow the conventional rules of behavior that we're supposed to follow - because if I had, I never would have accomplished what I did.

People Behavior Rules Never Follow

German women love American men. That's why a lot of American servicemen go to Germany - and never come back.

Michael Strahan

Love Women Men American Back Go

The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I predicted a new focus on the moment, on real experience, and on what things are actually worth right now. Then 9/11 magnified this sensibility, forcing America as a nation to contend with its own impermanence.

Douglas Rushkoff

Moment Experience Focus Forward End

I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed.

Walk People Me I Can Street Still

Sometime you go out and you wonder why these people are standing in the rain, and then you realize that years ago you were a fan, too. I, too, was chased by cops for watching my favourite celebrities.

Rain People You Wonder Go Why

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