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Jesmyn Ward Quotes

I'm always thinking about time. That's one of themes I return to in my work, the way the past bears on the present, the way that time is not linear, and how that expresses itself in people's everyday lives.

Jesmyn Ward

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american

Topics

Work Time Past People Thinking Way

Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

Jimi Hendrix

Hate Guitar You Sometimes Want Up

A lot of people say I am using all the procedures for my face. I didn't do anything. I live a healthy life; I take care of my skin and my body. I'm against Botox. I'm against injections; I think it's damaging your face, damaging your nerves. It's all me. I will age gracefully, as my mom does.

Melania Trump

Life Live Age I Am People Mom

Most cartoons are those colors. They have been for 35 years.

John Kricfalusi

Colors Years Been Cartoons Most

I'm a family guy, I've got a beautiful wife, a beautiful son, and I couldn't be happier.

Max Holloway

Family Son Beautiful Wife Guy Got

It's rare that I'm able to get to my desk in the morning without stopping halfway there, turning around, and going in the opposite direction because of a pressing need to straighten all the pictures on the walls, floss my teeth a second time, and make certain that there really are 100 postage stamps in the roll of stamps I bought yesterday.

Rosemary Mahoney

Morning Time Walls Direction Teeth

Chael Sonnen inspired everybody. You go there and call someone out, and you get the fight.

Jose Aldo

Fight Someone You Go Out Inspired

The meanings of words and the uses of words come from practice from the way people in a given culture use those words.

Deborah Tannen

Culture Words Practice People Way

In Germany, they have great difficulty with anything that smacks of cultism or messianic leadership. You can't talk about leadership in its charismatic forms.

David Whyte

Leadership Great You Talk Anything

Any mature, responsible adult doesn't run around stomping their feet and screaming 'I'm a mature, responsible, adult.'

Debby Ryan

Feet Run Mature Responsible Adult

I grew up in an environment with virtually no Hispanics where you see only people in your culture in custodial jobs. I had a messed up image of what we bring to this nation. My father was known as a pioneering figure in Cuban music, but I still associated him with everything that was negative in my neighborhood. I could not have been more mistaken.

Arturo O'Farrill

Father Music Culture People Negative

I get things out of my system through my songs, but, because they can be about so many different things, it takes me a while to get through them emotionally.

Sharon Van Etten

Me Out Through System Things Get

When I had money, I felt pressure, whether it was to invest it or do good with it, and I couldn't let it fizzle out. It was like I needed to prove to myself that I could look after it, only I did the opposite, but you have to take a chance in life.

Shane Filan

Life Good Myself Money Chance Look