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Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

What I learned for myself... is that no matter what the circumstances, people survive.

Jacqueline Woodson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Myself People Survive Circumstances

My first memory of guitar was seeing my father play one.

Father Memory Guitar Seeing Play

Because I've got younger sisters, I want to impart on them the possibility of being a strong woman in whatever role I choose.

Woman Strong Strong Woman Choose Got

One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.

You Rules Know Actor Never Being

We live in downtown Manhattan and we have pretty big windows that looked right at the World Trade Center. I was home along with Kai and we watched it all happen. I was holding him in my arms and we were looking out the window when the second plane hit.

Jennifer Connelly

Home Live Window World Looking Out

I'm not meant to sit on the couch and not play music. But I never want to feel like I have to put out a record. I don't want to ever make those records.

Sturgill Simpson

Music Feel Play Want Never Out

The Hyde Amendment might prohibit federal dollars from directly funding abortion, but federal money is used elsewhere in Planned Parenthood, which allows other funds to be used for abortion.

Money Abortion Amendment Planned

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

Beautiful Time Brain Writing Better

Any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries that sponsor terrorism to remain as members, such as Cuba, is not real reform. And in the past, countries such as Libya, Iran and Syria have participated on this council.

Past Terrorism Cuba Human Real

My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.

Mother Anxiety Remember Suicide Way

When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.

Loudon Wainwright III

Parent House Down Cards Whole Dies

My favorite was always smothered pork chops. Smothered pork chops. That would be my request if I ever had one, and it was pretty consistent.

Always Pork Pretty Consistent Would

Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so.

Today American Political Done Africa

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