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N. K. Jemisin Quotes

There's a tendency in American thought - maybe elsewhere, but that's the culture I know best - to default to social Darwinism, even though even Darwin noted that's a misapplication of his ideas.

N. K. Jemisin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 19, 1972

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Best Culture Ideas Thought American

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

Maurice Sendak

Truth Hope Children Myself Parents

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.

Anjelica Huston

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I'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal.

Ruth Reichl

Husband Thanksgiving Meal Big Fan

You see people who have been very heavy in their life who have taken that body, trimmed it down, firmed it up through discipline, exercise and being able to say no. Eating properly, that all comes into it.

Mike Ditka

Life Health Discipline People Eating

I write about eight hours a day, and I throw away most of what I write.

Jason Molina

Day Write Away Throw Hours Eight

I am a practical girl.

Divyanka Tripathi

Girl I Am Practical Am

It's hard to be judgmental once you've been around the world... it's pretty hard to be anything but understanding, and I think it's good for everybody to get out and see someplace other than where you grew up.

Brad Paisley

Good World Think Understanding You

The dark areas, the 'mare' plains of the moon, are so incredibly smooth that the English astronomer Thomas Gold has suggested that they might really be depressions filled to the brim with dust. A rocket hit would show whether they are that or not.

Willy Ley

Moon Gold Dark Dust Rocket English

'Space finder' is a phase I used in an interview one time, and it's followed me ever since.

Thomas Muller

Time Space Me Interview Used Phase

Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what's called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it.

Noam Chomsky

You Early Nobody Say Try Grammar

I want to collaborate with people and be a part of a creative community.

Noel Wells

Community Creative People Want Part

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

Martha Graham

Art Dance Body Outside Your