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Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a hindrance.

Jamaica Kincaid

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Children Small I Can Never Write

I want to make sure that, not only in the Republican Party but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States.

People Body Party Want Republican

I don't do faddy diets any more. I once did a no-carbs diet a few years ago but it made me depressed. I couldn't be doing with that!

Jennifer Ellison

Me Diet Doing More Years Made

Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who have never abandoned me, and possessing a sufficient share of all that contributes to make life agreeable, I lift my grateful eyes towards the Supreme Being and feel that I am happy.

John James Audubon

Life Family Eyes Grateful I Am Me

My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that. The reason I do that is because I know what it takes once I engage, what that means for me personally and for my wife.

Work Wife Me Know Try Reason

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

Success Seed You Desire Want First

The pension system ties you to companies much longer in Japan.

You System Japan Much Pension Ties

I don't eat anything before, but I can still go kill it at the gym and be in and out in 45 minutes or an hour, even doing workouts in the sauna to get the blood and sweat flowing.

Doing Gym I Can Sweat Go Blood

Whether it's a very dramatic part or a comical role, I feel I need to create the same thing: a full-fledged, three-dimensional character that the audience can identify with.

Christopher Lloyd

Character Feel Create Need Audience

I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.

Christina Aguilera

People Mind Chance Know Want Poet

I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the countryside.

People Writing Australia Crime Urban

I don't even know what the issues are. I haven't paid attention to politics in a long time. It's actually not something that I really even enjoy. It's way off my radar.

Time Politics Enjoy Long Attention

If you had to find a period in history that would equate to what the Internet has presented us with now, it would be Elizabethan England. It was a world in flux.

History World Internet You Find Now

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