Jesmyn Ward Quotes

'The UnAmericans' is a compassionate and brilliantly rendered debut - and for a book set largely in the past, these stories feel essential to understanding the contemporary world in which we live.

Jesmyn Ward

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Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.

Jim Cooper

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Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

John Doerr

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Men should look at the world as if something is wrong when their voices predominate. They should feel it.

Meryl Streep

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Netflix completely shook up the world.

Steven Van Zandt

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I'm allowed to maintain some modicum of privacy. But also, I would like not to be picked apart or for people to observe when I put on 10 pounds or take off 10 pounds, or I have a hair extension out of place, or my fake tan is botched.

Sia

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None of my friends are in the entertainment industry.

Lizzy Caplan

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The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.

Jonathan Franzen

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I know what it feels like to be a gun lover.

Dick Cavett

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Thankfully, I've got great support around me to keep my feet on the floor.

Dele Alli

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Being a writer is great because you get to come up with stuff.

Courtney A. Kemp

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It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy.

Craig Ferguson

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Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.

Peter O'Toole

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