Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
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My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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All of us grow.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
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In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.
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Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
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Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
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My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there. He had just been discharged from the Air Force. He went to school on the GI Bill and got his teaching credentials. He is adventurous - he worked his way through Alaska at age seventeen and paid for his living expenses by winning at the poker table.
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I will be putting out a fragrance - I'm following in the great steps of Puff Daddy.
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'Haven't you heard that this house belongs to an ogre who eats little children?'
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Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.
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The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.