Jesmyn Ward Quotes

As a reader, sometimes, I just want to not think. You know, I want to read something that is purely enjoyable: that is, like, escapist.

Jesmyn Ward

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I'll fly Away took place in the 50's and 60's in America's South, and there are a couple of scenes where me and my friends are supposed to be skinny dipping with these girls.

Jeremy London

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There certainly is a good 'Tex Mex' restaurant very close to our office. My office is around 100 yards from it. I call it Tex Mex because every couple of years it's changed hands and changed name, I'm not exactly sure why!

Andrew Oliver

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Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.

Meryl Streep

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You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.

Tom Hiddleston

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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Rita Mae Brown

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I think as working actors, it's like sales. You're only as good as your last sale, so you put your all into something and you just hope that from that you can get your next job.

Josh Peck

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Singers like Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar are very conscious of what's going on around them, and they're waking up lot of young people with that knowledge. They bring their enlightenment to the world; the world that is buying their records.

Dianne Reeves

KnowledgePeopleWorldEnlightenment

I was in 27 Broadway plays in a row as a kid, and in between, I learned how to play the horses from the stagehands.

Dick Van Patten

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I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.

Ari Graynor

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I make 98% of my collection in New York City and am generating jobs, so fashion isn't just frivolous for me. I understand levity about it. I also understand the depth of it.

Prabal Gurung

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My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

Sylvia Earle

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I'm really into the Tom Ford lipsticks. I was always afraid to wear lip color because I thought it made me look too masculine, but my makeup artist Fiona Stiles got me into wearing coral, orange-y colors from his line, and now I wear lipstick all of the time.

Nikki Reed

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