Jesmyn Ward Quotes

Throughout my career, when I have been rejected, there was sometimes subtext, and it was this: People will not read your work because these are not universal stories.

Jesmyn Ward

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If I'm going to get an ice cream cone two or three times a week, then it's a pleasure. No guilt.

Melissa Leo

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Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting.

Melanie Chisholm

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I'd drown in a sea of tears if I lived my life ruminating on the past. I would undoubtedly revise memories to be more joyful that they were, or ever have been.

Maximillian Degenerez

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I do write to be loved; I speak so that I am loved; I work for love; I live with others so that they may love me, and so that I can love them. For me, this is very important, and many, or all, of my relationships are based on that.

Angeles Mastretta

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How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business.

Robin Gibb

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One of my big inspirations was Chuck Berry, and his playing was always about the rhythm and the lyrics. So I've always been that way in my playing, really.

Mick Ralphs

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Everything we've been taught about health, weight loss and aging is wrong.

Jorge Cruise

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You don't have to get ready if you stay ready, alright? I'm always in the gym, always training, all the time.

Donald Cerrone

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The outburst of sexual freedom in the '60s was bound to happen because the '50s were so oppressing. You had to live that way; women had to be like this - it was all locked into a false reality.

Christopher Lloyd

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I'm not really too worried about what I'm gonna do next, because I just think of my career as, like, having sixty years ahead of me.

Ansel Elgort

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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.

Asia Argento

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People do really stupid things while driving.

Astro Teller

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