Jesmyn Ward Quotes

I've been in so many writing workshops where someone hands in a story, and when the other writers in the workshop are giving feedback, they say, 'This is unbelievable.' And the writer says, 'Well, actually, the events are based in real life. This actually happened.'

Jesmyn Ward

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I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

Jim Mattis

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I've never been a particular fan of any genre.

Jewel Staite

NeverBeenFanGenreAnyParticular

I love actors, and I love good acting. I love what actors do when they're good, and I'm a big acting fan.

John Carney

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The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.

John Mason Brown

GoodBetterMoreSeen

When I was younger, before I was born, I lost my twin, so I think I've always had a fascination for telepathy or the way that twins act and react with each other.

Sophie Turner

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Whenever something happens that makes me laugh or if I remember something in the middle of the night that I want to share, I jot the experience down.

Tori Spelling

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We will pay a heavy price if we insist on navigating the 21st century with a 20th century mindset.

Tom Steyer

MindsetPriceWillPayHeavyInsist

When I read in newspapers that farmers are dying because of water shortage, I felt deeply pained that we have best of everything, yet we complain so much, whereas there are people who do not even have access to basic necessities of life.

Roop Durgapal

LifeWaterBestPeopleFarmers

And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes.

Robert Walpole

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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Michel de Montaigne

MemoryWishForgetNothingThing

I think 'Batman Begins' is certainly my favorite Batman movie I've seen.

Joss Whedon

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I lean towards traditionally what people would consider the more negative side of life.

Josh Silver

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