Natasha Trethewey Quotes

It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

Natasha Trethewey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 26, 1966

Topics

MeWriteYearsFinallyBeforeWrote

I like the small clubs.

John Lee Hooker

SmallLikeClubs

I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

MeImpossibleBelieveBadNowMovie

Any day, the tide could turn. You have one or two bad films, and now you've got to make a comeback.

Rocky Carroll

DayComebackYouTideBadNow

This is a tremendous opportunity to be named head coach of the Brooklyn Nets, and it's a role I have been studying for over the course of my playing days.

Jason Kidd

OpportunityBrooklynStudyingCoach

I think of myself as making independent films within the studio system. Yes, I've made movies with significantly larger budgets, and I've also made movies with smaller budgets.

Doug Liman

MyselfThinkMoviesIndependentYes

In my early twenties, I had no idea who I was. And I think that's one reason you should try different relationships. I've had good and bad ones, but I took away things from them that helped me become who I am.

Cobie Smulders

GoodI AmMeThinkYouEarly

Jim Tomsula is going to be great coach for us. Players' coach. Always around the guys. Someone that's willing to listen to what the players say and has their intake.

Colin Kaepernick

GreatSomeoneSayListenCoachUs

This is the city that kind of formulated who I am. And, not only that, but to be black in Atlanta is one of the greatest things because you can go anywhere and feel familiar with anyone who's right next to you, from Bankhead to Buckhead.

Brian Tyree Henry

I AmCityBlackFeelYouKind

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Anne Sexton

FatherRememberMatterMattersWho

I did a lot of hiking and I loved it.

Ashley Judd

LovedHikingDidLot

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

Arthur Schopenhauer

BoredomSituationOutsideDepend

My mother was born in Ghana, but she moved to the U.K. when my sisters and I were born.

Philomena Kwao

MotherBornSheSistersGhanaMoved

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