Tayari Jones Quotes

I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew up in a household that believed in social justice. I have always understood myself as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated.

Tayari Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 30, 1970

Topics

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As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

John Fahey

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Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.

John McCain

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It's even more of a torture not to work than to work.

Maurizio Cattelan

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I don't mind if someone yells a motto out of their car at me. 'No touching! No touching!' No harm is done.

Jeffrey Tambor

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Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services - from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants - are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.

Tom Peters

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Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.

Roger McGough

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I've always scribbled, and I still do it. I've written numerous scripts for films for which I think I'd be perfect as the complex, intelligent and, yes, modern heroine. Embarrassingly bad, all of them. I've had to come to terms with the fact that I'm not a writer.

Romola Garai

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I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.

Loudon Wainwright III

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The power dynamics in a relationship are going to be fluid over a long period of time, so to wait for 'perfect' is going to be a mistake.

Jason Segel

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There is probably no such thing as a level playing field in political campaigns.

Deborah Tannen

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Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

Dean Koontz

HeartMindOwnBringHerText

Sometimes, we writers find the perfect research material. I can't overstate how how precious that feels - it's as though you're having an intimate conversation with someone who has the key to unlock your project.

Chloe Benjamin

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