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Jesmyn Ward Quotes

I grew up in a lot of different homes when I was younger: my parents rented trailers and small, boxy houses set high on cement block pillars.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american

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Parents Small High Up Different Set

I love foods that start in my cheeks and then vibrate up.

Love Start Up Cheeks Foods Then

As a beneficiary of the carried interest loophole, I've seen firsthand the lack of any difference between the work involved in generating a carried interest and the work done by millions of other professionals who are taxed at the full 35 percent rate.

Work Done Difference Seen Interest

Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice.

Community Doing Choice Way Within

The 'victim to victory' theory is that, if you listen to the radio, a large percentage of the hits are... about victim to victory, like, 'I'm having a terrible time.' And then the pre-chorus is, 'I don't know what's gonna happen next.' And the chorus is, 'Now I'm brilliant, and everything is great, because something happened to make it great.'

Great Time Victory You Know Now

It is not enough for us to merely continue to talk about and contribute to the echo chamber of white noise of what's wrong with America or for candidates to spout off silly poll-tested talking points about national security or foreign policy.

America Enough Talking Security Talk

You see figure skaters fall all the time. It's the way you pick yourself back up and keep going.

Time Keep Going Yourself You Fall

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Love Love Is Philadelphia Tax Over

It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout.

Jonathan Kellerman

Good Great Time Tired Feel Way

In 2004, one of my books, 'Whale Talk,' was chosen as an all-school read in Fowlerville, Michigan, a rural town not far from Detroit. They had done what I thought was a brilliant and innovative thing: decided to teach the book in every discipline, sophomores through seniors.

Discipline Book Thought Done Detroit

There's so much published by so many different publishers. Most of the time, I don't have to confront that, but walking into a conference center filled with books - and people buying them or not buying them, being interested or not interested in them - that's just overwhelming to me now.

Time People Me Walking Now Buying

The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.

Yourself Management You Try First

I'm a firm believer in people who love what they do.

Love People Firm Who Believer

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