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Natasha Trethewey Quotes

My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.

Natasha Trethewey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Father Mother Time His Divorced

The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.

Class Clown Competitive Being Very

The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.

Leadership Daughter Party Labor Same

I just believe that the way that young people's minds develop is fascinating. If you are doing something for a grade or salary or a reward, it doesn't have as much meaning as creating something for yourself and your own life.

Life Yourself People Believe Doing

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.

Robert Browning

Strength Sea Land Up Breaks Loaded

The only other time I can recall my dad getting upset at me was when I missed a hockey practice. My parents were away, so my buddy and I decided to skip it. I never told my dad about it, but he found out from the coach.

Time Practice Parents Me Hockey

I could play a gig on the moon and not be nervous about it.

Moon Play Nervous About Gig Could

I have a variety of readers from across the diasporic community, not just from South Asia. I like to write large stories that include all of us - about common and cohesive experiences which bring together many immigrants, their culture shocks, transformations, concepts of home and self in a new land.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Home Community Culture Together Self

People tend to think that I know less about what I'm talking about than I actually do - usually people who think that all aristocrats are stupid.

Christopher Monckton

People Stupid Think Talking Know

It's insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it's assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It's that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he's telling you something about his own life. It's so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!

Life People Think Musicians You Own

The one thing Marvel does is think outside the box, going all the way back to Ang Lee directing the first 'Hulk.' They like to go outside the genre.

Think Back Go Way First Outside

To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make.

Mistake Worst Begin Make Writer

We now enter a new age of American history, and the question to be answered is this: Will we restore the republic our forefathers created, or will we allow it to be annihilated by those who hate America, its history, and all it stands for?

Augustus Sol Invictus

Age History Hate American America

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