Clemantine Wamariya Quotes

My copy of 'Night' is dog-eared. The pages are filled with plastic colored 'flags' that are blue, green, purple, and yellow. Vocabulary is in the margins; phrases and sentences are underlined, some with pencil, and some with pen. Many words are circled.

Clemantine Wamariya

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It took me a long time to write again because Katrina destroyed the home I loved, and that robbed me of hope.

Jesmyn Ward

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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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I love doing action. Since I'm not 21, there's some, 'Let me get to the gym so I can do it.' But I love to defy expectations.

Angela Bassett

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I was actually born in Belgium and lived there until I was 11, then moved to Australia for a year, then moved to New Zealand, so I only lived there from when I was 12 to 18.

Stella Maxwell

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Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

Sigmar Gabriel

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For humans and animals alike, truly vigorous, wholehearted, spontaneous play is something of a biological frill.

Robin Marantz Henig

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I was pushed into Zumba by one of the trainers in my gym. He saw me looking inside the Zumba room, so he told me to just go and start.

Roop Durgapal

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How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!

Mary Augusta Ward

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I directed the next-to-last episode of 'Parenthood.' I wrote three of the four last episodes. I had the cast to my house. Had a champagne toast with the writers. Had a huge cast and crew party. Drank eggnog in the camera truck after we wrapped the final day. All that, and I don't really feel like I've said good-bye to 'Parenthood.'

Jason Katims

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We've been trying to open the gates of communication between Havana and Miami through art, which is apolitical most of the time: It doesn't have anything to do with politics and is only an exchange of ideas.

Jorge M. Perez

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Before I drop in, I tend to knock on my snowboard. You know how when you jinx yourself, they're like, 'Knock on wood.' My snowboard's wood, so in case I jinxed myself sometime in the past, I just knock on my board. It just makes me feel a lot more comfortable.

Chloe Kim

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You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

Brian Eno

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