Jesmyn Ward Quotes

'As I Lay Dying,' I reread that often. That's the first work of Faulkner's that I read that so amazed me and that I responded to emotionally and viscerally. I admired it so much, and I think that's why I keep rereading it.

Jesmyn Ward

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I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!

Jenny Agutter

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I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.

St. Vincent

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I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story, but some day I'm going to make one. I would really like to go off and direct a musical. That's what I would really like to do when I grow up.

Steven Spielberg

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And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent.

Sibel Edmonds

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Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens. So I can do that.

Ruth Rendell

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I love making stuff. There's a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the day before. I videotape those, study them, enjoy being in the character and figuring out the movie.

Mike Myers

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The alt-right believes that Western culture is currently imperiled and that the elites on both sides of the political divide are not doing enough to protect it. In that analysis, I think they're right.

Milo Yiannopoulos

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Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The language that we use now impacts on the ability to vote, it impacts on the marketplace; instead of making things clear, it makes it more confusing. I think we need to stop using neutral language and speak in straighter terms. So when you agree to something, you actually get what you agreed to in the first place.

Josh Homme

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Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales.

Joseph Jacobs

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Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

Chuck Jones

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Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.

Arthur Compton

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