Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.

Jamaica Kincaid

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeMotherWomanBrotherMeHer

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

Andre Gide

GiftedMostPerhapsTremblingAlso

When I am on the opera stage, I am playing someone else. In recitals, I even have the chance to talk to the audience, which is something you don't get to do in opera.

Sondra Radvanovsky

I AmChanceSomeoneYouTalkStage

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Roger B. Chaffee

SmallProblemsLookMightyUpMiles

Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of.

Roger Mudd

FoolsBeginWhoLikeMadeSimply

I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film.

Romany Malco

MeLearnGrandmotherAlwaysFilm

I always said to my friends that I would play for Chelsea one day.

Romelu Lukaku

DayFriendsPlaySaidOne DayWould

I learned so much about life and other human beings - then about myself.

Mary Steenburgen

LifeMyselfHumanHuman BeingsMuch

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

Deborah Tannen

RelationshipMistakeConversationWay

There's a lot of pretty funny women out there.

Chelsea Handler

FunnyWomenOutPrettyLot

There are plenty of writers who are going to become a director after their next job, but no one will believe you're a director unless you believe it.

Brian Helgeland

JobBelieveYouWillBecomeGoing

Nobody remembers who finished second but the guy who finished second.

Bobby Unser

NobodyGuyWhoSecondFinished

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

Arthur Conan Doyle

ArtManImportantPleasureOwnWho

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