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Jesmyn Ward Quotes

I don't really base any of my characters on specific people that I know, although my characters are informed by the kind of people who live in my community.

Jesmyn Ward

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american

Topics

Live Community People Know Kind Who

I think I get credit for my timing because most of the time, I really have no idea where I'm going with it.

Jennifer Coolidge

Time Think Credit Timing Going Get

I think people look great in black. I love that what stands out is the person, especially. Black just conveys a kind of drama, even if it can be quiet drama. It does lend to the wearer a sense of confidence.

Andre Leon Talley

Love Confidence Great People Think

We've unveiled the most comprehensive reform budget people have seen in a generation.

John Kasich

People Generation Budget Seen Reform

I'm interested in people who are very close to the people who commit crimes.

Amanda Peet

People Close Commit Who Interested

I don't know how happy I was when I met Sting. I always had this difficulty of not really knowing who I was.

Trudie Styler

Happy Know Knowing Always Difficulty

Liberals would prefer it if the bald eagle on the Great Seal was holding olive branches in both talons, or, better, an olive branch in one, and maybe a soft cushion in the other, to entice our enemies to lie down and snooze.

Mike Gallagher

Great Lie Eagle Better Down Bald

They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down.

Michael Johnson

Me Small Think Down Go Want

A lot of people relate leadership to formalities. They believe that leadership is about being professional and strong and always right and being a booming voice. I just don't buy that. I think that leadership is a soft skill; it's a people skill.

Jason Fried

Leadership People Believe Think

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.

Cokie Roberts

Women Men Constitution Independence

Before I got famous, I was like a rake. When I was a teenager, I lived on nervous energy. And I always forgot to eat. It was not something I was obsessed with. And then suddenly I got famous, people started taking me out to fancy joints. And the pounds pile on. So I'm much more conscious now about when I eat. How I eat. What I eat.

Boy George

People Me Energy Famous Now Nervous

I don't think I could write about something I've never experienced or felt; all my songs are about things I've been through.

Anne-Marie

Think Never Write Through Something

Going in and out of a proverbial 'poor door' - a separate entrance for income-restricted residents of mixed-income housing - of your city every day has its costs, even if the 'poor door' woman would be considered affluent in another location.

Alissa Quart

Day Woman City Door Every Day Poor