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Natasha Trethewey Quotes

I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.

Natasha Trethewey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Friend School Me Writing Short

The reason I didn't take the baseball route is because they don't have rankings for baseball players.

Baseball Reason Take Because Players

Not everyone wants to see children's films, comics, and supermen.

Children Everyone See Wants Comics

I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them. I was going to name the main character Matt, but I didn't think it would go over well in a pitch meeting, so I changed the name to Bart.

Family Father Mother Character Think

Johnny Ringo to me was just the best antagonist that I've ever played, because I played him as a guy who has a death wish and had done everything that he wanted in life. As far as he was concerned, a gun fight was about as exciting as it was going to get.

Life Best Death Fight Me Gun

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Strength Religion Illusion Desires

Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it.

Me Picture Routine Down Nothing

Until white people understand that racism is embedded in everything, including our consciousness and socialisation, then we cannot go forward.

Racism People Forward White Go Our

My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community.

Marriage Community Parents Me You

I guess if I wrote a book one day, it would be about hair.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Day Hair Book One Day Would Guess

'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the most fun I ever had and the most creative period of my life.

Life Creative Fun My Life Show Most

It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland.

Matter Old Kid Disneyland Always

I'm thankful for performing as long as I am allowed.

Thankful I Am Long Performing Am

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