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Jesmyn Ward Quotes

If I could chat with anyone, it would be Claire Messud, because I think she could tell me how to get better as a writer as I age.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american

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Age Me Think Better She Tell

The Democrats are going the way of Burma Shave and Crisco - products everyone loved and had in their homes. But they got old. They didn't have anything new to say about the product, and after awhile, they died.

Jerry Della Femina

Loved New Say Product Way Anything

I'd paint long strips of canvas and abandon them on the beach, or put bread out in geometric patterns for the pigeons downtown. I wanted people to find something nice and intriguing to puzzle over. Then I'd go back to see if the things were still there, or if anyone would notice.

Beach People Puzzle Long Back Find

This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on.

Time Back Country Principles Away

Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures, and we will come out of it. We will go back into surplus position when the economy recovers. So there is no need in Canada to raise taxes.

Back Canada Go Now Will Need

There are guys you give the benefit of the doubt if they hold you up a little bit longer than normal, and you have that list of guys you kind of know are going to be a problem when you get there. The window of being patient with them is a lot shorter.

Window Problem Doubt You Know Kind

Priests and nuns actually meditated. It's not religious. It's about centering yourself.

Yourself Religious Nuns Actually

Rather than use the term 'profiling,' the profilers prefer to say they engage in criminal investigative analysis. That is because, besides developing profiles, the analysts offer a range of other advice, including personality assessments and interview techniques tailored to a particular offender.

Personality Advice Say Analysis

The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors.

Control Pressure Radio Even Some

Congress created a safe harbor for defamation in 1996 and for copyright in 1998. Both safe harbors were designed to ensure that the Internet would remain a participatory medium of speech.

Internet Speech Congress Safe Would

I couldn't speak English. I'm in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated.

Louis Zamperini

Speak First Reason Kindergarten Got

Fantasy football is not only a good thing, but a great thing.

Good Great Football Fantasy Only

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.

Job Writing End Understanding Theme

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