Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided.

Jamaica Kincaid

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

Joe Morton

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Intensity is so much more becoming in the young.

Joanne Woodward

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I'm not sure I had a political career for the future anyway. I'm not sure that politics was what I wanted to spend my life doing.

John Edwards

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The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things.

Robert Nozick

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You have to recognize what the markets are doing, what the rules and regulations are doing, and all the more reasons that we've got to find some more solutions in particular with coal.

Matt Mead

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I've had enough rejection for 33 years. I don't need more.

Michael Cimino

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'Lose My Cool' is the second track on my EP dedicated to a stage in the grieving process. This track represents anger. I really bottled a lot up after my mother passed, and one day, I couldn't handle it anymore and just exploded on all of my friends and family. It was a very passive way of dealing with things, not very healthy.

Amber Mark

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I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

Stanislav Grof

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Protecting the rights of service members was an important part of my work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.

Tom Perez

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We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president - and the president alone - who always makes the final call.

Michelle Obama

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I always want my character to have dimension, no matter what phase of life or situation they find themselves in.

Mira Sorvino

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My roots are still in Britain, that's where I live, that's the place where I come from.

Miranda Richardson

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