Natasha Trethewey Quotes

Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.

Natasha Trethewey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkMyselfMemoryThinkBetterOff

If you've got a shot at having some 30 million people give you thumbs up or thumbs down every week, you take it.

Joe Penny

PeopleWeekYouDownUpTake

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

John Bradshaw

ChildrenMomentWorldBrandNewZen

I work out seven days a week, and I love every minute of it. It really is a way just to get away. I weight train and do cardio and stay active as much as possible every day; I have to just to clear my head. I love to get into the gym.

Matt Cohen

WorkLoveDayWeekEvery DayGym

I went to a prep school in Chicago, and my dad and mom worked really hard - even though we lived in the ghetto - to get me to there. A lot of it had to do with 'Stand and Deliver' and 'Dead Poet's Society.' It does help you. It inspires you. It definitely did for me.

Michael Pena

SchoolMeMomSocietyStandHelp

A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience.

Michael Mann

ExperiencePeopleNothingScreen

If only I'd stayed on the West Coast, I might have made something of myself.

Mitch Kapor

MyselfWestWest CoastSomething

I have a lot of conservative views on a lot of things.

Denis Leary

ConservativeThingsViewsLot

In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.

Brigitte Bardot

DemocracyRightMustOneselfEven

As soon as you put something to bed like the 'Women' book, you're never finished. There were portraits of people that I wanted to photograph - it's an endless subject.

Annie Leibovitz

WomenPeopleBookYouBedNever

If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart.

Allen Iverson

HeartMeBelieveNeedGotJust

But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style.

Ali Smith

WorkStyleStoryMoreBoxSide

It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.

Potter Stewart

ConstitutionAlwaysRememberedMust

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