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Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

In writing 'Another Brooklyn,' I had to imagine what happens when friendships dissolve.

Jacqueline Woodson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 12, 1963

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Writing Brooklyn Imagine Happens Had

If all I did was pretend I was Wilderness Jimmy, I would go stale. You know, I fish maybe 100 days of the year and bird-hunt, but if I didn't go to Paris once or twice a year, I'd be crazy.

Crazy Wilderness Fish Year You Know

Music is half the film.

Music Half Film

Former president Wulff said Islam belongs to Germany. That is true. I also hold this opinion.

Opinion Said True Islam President

For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.

Life Music Me Experiences Half

Sidney Farber was a pathologist. He was called a doctor of the dead. He was a pathologist who sort of lived in the basement of the children's hospital in Boston, and he became very interested in childhood leukemia. And Farber began to inject this drug, aminopterin, into young kids, in order to see if he could get a remission.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Children Childhood Doctor Young Dead

When millions of law-abiding people achieve citizenship, our communities benefit, and the U.S. economy grows and strengthens.

People Citizenship Achieve Economy

You work with every actor differently. It's like if you're a mother, if you have children, some children need more discipline. Other children, you back off of a little bit and let them be. It's the same way with actors. Some actors need a lot of hand holding. Other actors like to be let be, and you let them go.

Work Mother Children Discipline You

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

Live Time New York Television New

When you're directing an ongoing series, the tone has already been set. So a director will come in and fulfill that tone - reinforce the characters and their behavior. The challenge is to find unique ways that you can visually tell the story while keeping the established tone and the pace and the characters.

Challenge Story Behavior You Unique

The most compelling economic and geopolitical story in 2017 will almost certainly revolve around China. The world's most populous country bankrolled an economic boom with high levels of debt and leverage, with which the government is now forced to reckon.

Anthony Scaramucci

Government World Story Country Now

I would call universities and community colleges and say, 'I really want to go to college. How do I get to college? What do I do?' And they would say, 'You have to get an application. You have to get letters of recommendation.' It was terrifying. I had no idea what I was doing.

Community College Doing You Go Want

Even though I am fantastic looking, I am still quite intelligent.

I Am Looking Intelligent Still Even

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