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Tayari Jones Quotes

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Truth Lie Want Fiction Catch Memoir

With climate change, we are living on borrowed time. If we do not address these issues today, it is going to be much more expensive later on, and that is why we need to take action now.

Change Today Time Action Living Why

Ninety percent of video game AI really is pretty damn bad. I think that's actually why it's so much fun to shoot things. Because the AI is so bad and the characters are so annoying.

Fun Game Think Bad Damn Why

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

Stanley Kubrick

Best Camera Young Ridiculous Kind

With 'White Light,' I had just finished watching 'Under the Skin' and was really obsessed with the idea of science fiction presented as normality.

Science Light White Skin Watching

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

Travis Bradberry

Work Hard Work Result Skill Hard

I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.

Person Same Guy Off Ear Bit

You get people who rap about stuff that they don't do all day long. Half those guys, you hear them on the radio, and then you meet them, and you're like, 'Wow. They're so sweet.'

Day People Sweet Long You Meet

I just can't imagine anyone in the United States military who would not understand the distinction between a jihadist and a radical Islamist and Muslims. I think that is snobbery from elitists. It goes to the issue, it seems to me, of an orthodoxy, a political correctness that has infiltrated the U.S. Army.

Me Think Political Army Understand

For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community.

Community Art Poetry Need Reason

Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Power Voice Democratic Only Most

'Cloud 9' is an action/romantic comedy that focuses on the competitive world of snowboarding. We have glamorised it to so that all the players are on the cover of magazines, have all the interviews, and be on the television: so it is very high stakes.

World Comedy Cloud Television High

I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with.

Live People Think Country Place Get

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