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Jean Ingelow Quotes

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: english
Birth: March 17, 1820 - July 20, 1897

Topics

Life Beauty Great Hunger Idea

Making 'bad people' seem human is the key to making them really scary.

People Key Bad People Bad Human

I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception.

Work Nature Perception Artist Other

I think, in a career, you have several breaks that lead to a big break. Small things here and there all add up to cracking away at the dam. Then the dam breaks.

Small Things Small Think You Career

I don't see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn't need to be flattered with rain. It certainly needs rain, but it does with what it has, and creates amazing beauty.

Beauty Rain Amazing Desert Need See

I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.

Listening Someone Artists Different

I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedians - they knew a lot about comedy growing up.

Growing Up Comedy Friends Know Big

I'll always write picture books - it's just what I do. I'd even do it if I wasn't being paid.

Picture Write Always Paid Just Even

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Friend Remember You Judging Same He

I was a chronically shy child. That kernel of my younger self is still there, but I've developed mechanisms to deal with it.

Child Self Shy Deal Still Younger

I'd fight any of the top guys.

Fight Top Guys Any

Fighting has been a part of my life for my entire existence.

Life Fighting My Life Existence Been

People don't really want to hear me say this, but a black person who will give a million dollars to the Museum of Modern Art but won't give a million to the Studio Museum in Harlem is simply mistaken.

Kerry James Marshall

Art People Me Black Museum Person

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