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Tayari Jones Quotes

I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work School Year Result Done Take

I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.

Community Farming Up West Virginia

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.

Fun People Injustice Want Write Up

Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink.

Baseball Better Games Opening Days

Remember the first rule of gunfighting... 'have a gun.'

Gun Remember First Rule

It's fun to be blond, and it's almost difficult to remember how I used to look with my proper hair color.

Fun Hair Color Remember Look Used

It is my position that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do. No matter how I look at this issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.

Women Men Lie Look Place Young

Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.

Law Legal Doing Something Consumers

I was doing B.Tech in Noida, but I dropped out in my second year.

Doing Year Out Second Dropped

I'm really into the human interest thing. I really like regular people.

Chelsea Handler

People Human Interest Like Really

I enjoy acting now more than I ever have. I've had lots of difficult times when I was younger, but that was all tied up with thwarted ambition. It's hard being a young actor, because you don't realise until later that it's only ever about doing the work.

Work Ambition Doing Enjoy Acting

Today, when you look at social media, you see that the narrative can be overtaken by people just from Twitter and Instagram. I know when Ferguson was going down those first few nights, I was watching feeds on the ground on Twitter, not CNN.

Today Social Media People Media Look

I create art. It's kinda abstract.

Art Create Abstract Kinda

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