Tracy K. Smith Quotes

My hope is to create spaces where people of all stripes can come together and speak at a lower decibel level. We make more sense that way. We sound more like our real selves that way.

Tracy K. Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 16, 1972

Topics

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I'm useless with a sword in real life.

John Bradley-West

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How do we form a coalition of resistance without obliterating our differences? Not all lives matter, and we are not all the same immigrants.

Jenny Zhang

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One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself.

Matt Groening

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I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far.

Sidney Sheldon

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If I had an office job, I'd probably be doing the exact same thing I'm doing on television: hanging out by the water cooler and talking to co-workers about their relationships.

Tracy McMillan

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I'm sort of stuck in adolescence in many ways, like most artists, and march to my own beat.

Mary Gauthier

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At the end of the day, I want to be a world champion.

Luke Harper

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I think there's definitely a way to tell a story, to also look at marriages that are working, but find drama from what's challenging them. That's what I think, certainly, 'Parenthood' is kind of about: the unexpected things that come up in your life that challenge you as a man, as a woman, as a husband and a wife, and as a parent.

Jason Katims

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Yes, education is the catalyst that will hone and sharpen our talents, skills, and abilities and cause them to blossom.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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I got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo in any key, and then said 'What else is there?' Now I'm finding out.

Don Ellis

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I just thought to myself, 'What am I doing? Is this how I'm going to live my adult life, banging my head, especially with what I've learned and know about the dangers?'

Chris Borland

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The movie 'Devdas' is extremely close to my heart. It is one of my favourite movies. and the name Dev, too, is something I like a lot.

Shaheer Sheikh

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