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Jesmyn Ward Quotes

I always think about Faulkner, and I would argue that there can be a difference between the way that characters express themselves internally and externally.

Jesmyn Ward

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american

Topics

Think Way Difference Always Argue

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

John Cage

Past Need Gone Destroy

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

Joel Osteen

Believe Gay Sin I Believe Being

When you're hypermobile, it's easy to think your muscles are flexible, but your flexibility is really around your joints and not your muscles.

Anna Kaiser

Think Easy You Flexible Flexibility

Any director who's also acted understands the fact that every person has a different process and has to be approached differently.

Steve Zahn

Process Person Director Different

Guys, particularly in the West, go to the gym and train for hours and hours to pick up something that is heavier than them. Why would you want to do that?

Robert Carlyle

You Gym Train Go Want Why

As with all great works of literature, 'Of Mice and Men' moves with the inexorability of a huge river, and it pours itself, exhausts itself, in the sea of our unconscious. Having read it, we carry the book inside us forever.

Jay Parini

Sea Great Men River Book Literature

While the Beatles always had George Martin around to clean up their act, the Rolling Stones had Andrew Loog Oldham to coarsen theirs.

Jon Landau

Clean Always Up Act Clean Up Stones

I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater.

Brenda Blethyn

Love Live Secrets London Lies Made

The world asks us to be quickly readable, but the thing about human beings is that we are more than one thing. We are multiple selves. We are massively contradictory.

Ali Smith

World More Human Us One Thing Than

Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats.

Philip Treacy

Hat People Hats Long Young Want

Most people who make threats don't follow through. The most dangerous people are often those who never make threats. But 'most' and 'often' aren't what you are looking for when you're dealing with a scary person. You want to 'know.' And there is no knowing.

Susan Estrich

People Looking You Dangerous Person

We do not become an astronaut because we fear not only the risk of space, but we fear the risk of failure along the way more than we want to put in the work to make it happen - and it is easier not to try.

Rick Tumlinson

Work Failure Fear Space Want Become