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Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

Jamaica Kincaid

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality:
Birth: May 25, 1949

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Live Me Appreciate Garden Things

I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.

I Can Play Write Keyboard Note Just

When I was at Hamburg, 17 or 18, Ruud van Nistelrooy signed, and he helped me a lot. He saw my first training session, and he talked to me. He told me I was a good player. He gave me confidence, and I want to thank him for that.

Good Confidence Training Me Want He

It was a very strange time in the late 1950s/early 1960s, when people were putting things in space, but that language of spacecraft hadn't really congealed yet. A lot of artists at that time were looking at them as aesthetic objects.

Time Space People Looking Language

At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Experience Mind Thanks Superior Than

The first real unhappiness I remember to have felt was when some one told me, one day, that I did not love God. I insisted, almost tearfully, that I did; but I was told that if I did truly love Him I should always be good. I knew I was not that, and the feeling of sudden orphanage came over me like a bewildering cloud.

Love Good God Day Me Remember

I just love doing sitcoms. I'd be in them till I was gray if they'd have me.

Love Me Doing Gray Just Them

I don't care if you're my brother - if we go play football, I'm gonna try to crack your head open. It doesn't mean that I don't love you. It doesn't mean that I don't respect you.

Love Respect Football Brother Care

We have to know that nothing is promised, nothing is guaranteed, especially tomorrow.

Tomorrow Know Nothing Guaranteed

I really believed that Mike Huckabee had a vision for our country, and the more I was around him the more I was impressed by this man.

Vision Man Country More Him Our

I've always been quite thrifty. I can't bear to spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. I shop in second-hand shops in Portobello Road and go to Sue Ryder.

Road Clothes Go Bear Always Been

I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.

Universe Digital Capable Performing

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

Richard E. Byrd

Hero Progress Out Motion Static

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