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Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

I like to be in my pajamas all day. Sometimes I don't wash for days because I like to read and sit around. I like to eat in bed.

Jamaica Kincaid

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Day Bed Sometimes Pajamas Eat Days

History often reads as a hard and grim experience. But people are remarkably resilient and funny, even when the going is very hard.

Funny History Experience People Hard

He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a tall building or swoop down, and at that point he would look like he was flying, I suppose. It was just natural to draw him like that.

Beginning Building Flying Look Down

I'm a craftsman. I'm an actor.

Actor Craftsman

Mid-range to low-budget movies have to have a name in the lead to get financing for it.

Relationship People Start You Person

Eviction comes with a record, too, and just as a criminal record can bar you from receiving certain benefits or getting a foothold in the labor market, the record of eviction comes with consequences as well. It can bar you from getting good housing in a good neighborhood.

Matthew Desmond

Good You Consequences Labor Housing

It's a weird business. You're trying to write something that's built on magic, which is pretty stressful.

Business Weird Magic Trying You

What Edward Snowden did amounted to the greatest hemorrhaging of legitimate American secrets in the history of my nation.

History American Secrets Nation Did

I never considered myself a celebrity. I hate that word. It's tawdry.

Myself Hate Celebrity Never Word

It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.

Life Good Happiness Purpose Survival

It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout.

Fitness Exercise You Important Right

I just want to be a shining leader for the LGBTQIA-plus community. Drag queens have always been the leaders of the community.

Leader Community Want Always Been

To be with the other two-time gold medalists is great, but it's great to just be a decathlete.

Great Gold Just Other Just Be

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