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Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

I think there is such a richness to the South and a lushness and a way of life.

Jacqueline Woodson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Think Way I Think Richness

You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating.

Life Good My Life Ice You Know

I never called him Prince because I wanted him to be a person to me, not the man behind 'Purple Rain'. Plus, technically, I was married to the Symbol... When we got married, it was much easier. If someone else was there, I could say, 'Could I speak to my husband, please?'

Rain Man Me Husband Speak Someone

Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.

Children Myself Flying Drawing You

You can't think 'Dole' without thinking 'Bob Dole' and cartoons and third-person good times. He was one of those politicians: the kind you jabbed but were happy enough to have around.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

Good Happy Good Times Think Thinking

You'd have to go all the way back to 1972 to find a version of me who didn't care about theater, who didn't read Playbill and watch the Tony Awards, or get why Bob Fosse's choreography was so groundbreaking that all you need to say is 'Fosse hands' and theater people know what you mean.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

People Me Care Hands You Find

After a while, you can't get any higher. It's like your head is in a wind tunnel - everything is vibrating.

Wind You Everything Tunnel Head Get

I think it might surprise the average person how angry people can get over the comics.

Angry People Think Surprise Person

Just because someone has stylistic limitations doesn't necessarily make them a worse writer.

Someone Just Because Limitations Just

My friend Chloe Bartoli is a really cool stylist. I've talked about fashion with her a lot over the years. And I love Rihanna - she's rad. Through modeling, I've gotten to know a lot of designers that are really cool. Stefano and Domenico of Dolce & Gabbana have been really sweet.

Love Friend Cool Sweet Fashion Know

'Skyfall' was marvellous, the best Bond film ever made.

Best Bond Film Made Ever Marvellous

The best thing you can do when you're not feeling funny is go out and get more stimuli from the world, get out and walk around, read a book, go talk to some birds or a dog and replenish the well, as it were.

Funny Dog Best Walk Birds World

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank they don't like to think of themselves as poor.

Live People Deep Rich Think Talking

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