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Lesley Nicol Quotes

I was painfully shy as a child.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: british
Birth: 1953

Topics

Child Shy Painfully

We come from different backgrounds. Some people grow up with money in their pocket, or they have a certain last name; others have nothing. But it comes down to work ethic. That's where we all play on the same playing field.

Jessica Parker Kennedy

Work Money People Name Grow Play

I actually stopped working out because I don't want to lose my jelly.

Jennifer Hudson

Lose Want Out Because Working Jelly

In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother at 30, my daughter at 5.

Life Family Daughter God Time Angry

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Time Partnership By The Time

I spent 12 years of my life writing stories without black people. That's insane to me. It's insane that I could have believed in magical portals and dragons and all that stuff, but to believe a black person could be experiencing those things was unimaginable.

Life People Me Writing Believe

I'm not mad when people talk bad about me; that's the way it is.

People Me Bad Mad Way Talk

I don't think we should be presentable or present ourselves for the sake of others.

Think Present Others Ourselves Sake

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong.

Me Feel White Sometimes Matter Try

Not exactly what the world was looking for, a musical on 'Don Quixote.' It was required reading in high school.

School World Looking Reading High

You can still sit under the tree where Dr. Livingstone negotiated with slave traders to set people free.

Tree People Free You Slave Sit

Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.

Life Drama Play Moral Events Role

Being on food stamps can be demeaning. Cashiers know the difference between the new plastic SNAP cards and a credit card. Some food stamp recipients say some cashiers have made them feel uncomfortable and embarrassed.

Food Feel Uncomfortable Credit Cards

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