Leslie Jamison quote: "The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading."

The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular du...
LESLIE JAMISON

Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do...
LESLIE JAMISON

Sure, some news is bigger news than other news. War is bigger news than a girl having mixed feelings...
LESLIE JAMISON

Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, ...
LESLIE JAMISON

I've been lucky enough to work with extraordinary teachers along the way, and I'm excited to...
LESLIE JAMISON

Bad movies and bad writing and easy cliches still manage to make us feel things toward each other. P...
LESLIE JAMISON

You pass the old L.A. County jail, which is surprisingly beautiful. It's got a handsome stone fa...
LESLIE JAMISON

I believe God has a path for me. He's always had a path for me, and I've always been in the ...
JUDITH JAMISON

The way Alvin Ailey has transformed modern dance and dance in general is the fact of variety. It'...
JUDITH JAMISON

Relationships-of all kinds-are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the san...
KALEEL JAMISON

Dance is about never-ending aspiration.
JUDITH JAMISON

We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it?...
JUDITH JAMISON

As a dancer, you really try to stay true to whatever the choreographer/artistic director is giving y...
JUDITH JAMISON

I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class...
JUDITH JAMISON

Dancers use their bodies in extraordinary ways, so we are chronically pre-arthritic, because of how ...
JUDITH JAMISON

I don't see myself as a guy coming off the bench. But we won tonight, so even though I was coming of...
ANTAWN JAMISON

I know a lot of people will say we're in the entertainment industry, but we represent franchises tha...
ANTAWN JAMISON

If we had lost this kind of game about a month or two ago, this room would have been awful. This is ...
ANTAWN JAMISON

We know what Juan is capable of doing when he starts to feel it. We know he is going to be in the mi...
ANTAWN JAMISON

I can recall my rookie year when I was like a deer in the headlights, so I know it's hard for him. B...
ANTAWN JAMISON

Tonight was one of those nights when we were short-handed.
ANTAWN JAMISON

The one thing that could make this thing go in the right direction is to get a couple games early. W...
ANTAWN JAMISON

Offensively, I don't know what we were doing. They did a good job of staying poised.
ANTAWN JAMISON

He's done everything that you ask an All-Star to do. It was definitely disappointing for his peers n...
ANTAWN JAMISON

We have to give a better showing than that, ... I'm not worried about the offense. We know we can sc...
ANTAWN JAMISON

I don't think of myself as a leader. I am, but I don't think of myself that way. I'm not...
JUDITH JAMISON

I believe in being prepared. I'm going to say that. Pray, prepare, proceed.
JUDITH JAMISON

I would interpret it as circumventing the ordinance. The public is entitled to that information, I t...
BOB JAMISON

I basically considered it a long time ago. I told Dave that if he ran I wouldn't.
BOB JAMISON

Sioux Falls needs my experience and leadership now.
BOB JAMISON

However, I'm not the one that asked for the opinion. That would be the person who needs to withdraw ...
BOB JAMISON

I'm not sure whether proceeding will solve anything.
BOB JAMISON

Specifically some of them are going to have a sizeable bill approaching $20,000 to put in the sidewa...
BOB JAMISON

Someday it will have to occur, the more we (expand) into counties. The real justification for a metr...
BOB JAMISON

If you are out there, you have fans. You have a champion. Organize these champions. You probably kno...
JAMISON STAFFORD

That helped me get into a rhythm.
ANTAWN JAMISON

I knew I had to do something but I got into a rhythm.
ANTAWN JAMISON

Maybe it's a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I ...
JUDITH JAMISON

It's hard, but everybody goes through it with the exception of Detroit, who hasn't had any injuries....
ANTAWN JAMISON

Gilbert told me going into the second half, 'You can't do anything if you don't let it ride,'? He sh...
ANTAWN JAMISON

People don't remember me for how high my legs went, even though they went up very high, and how ...
JUDITH JAMISON

My idea for the Jamison Project was rather like a pickup company. The idea was to give the dancers a...
JUDITH JAMISON

It's constantly changing. It's the most elusive population (to count) because, again, they're homele...
DAVID JAMISON

We've counted again a couple of more times in sort of an unofficial way and come up with more than t...
DAVID JAMISON

You don't think people care, but something like this happens and you find out they do.
ANTHONY JAMISON

I'm still proud of the girls for taking us this far. They worked hard, and that hard work paid off f...
ANTHONY JAMISON

It's hard to beat them at whatever level we meet them at. We were hoping that since we got past area...
ANTHONY JAMISON

That was one of our goals at the beginning of the season.
ANTHONY JAMISON

They were in a rhythm tonight and we couldn't get them out of it. They made it tough for us the whol...
ANTAWN JAMISON

Sometimes you do have a lot of minutes, but it's crunch time. We know when we're out there we give o...
ANTAWN JAMISON

It's always good to play so well when you have the family and friends come out and see you play. It'...
ANTAWN JAMISON

Let's face it - when myself, Gilbert and Caron step up, we play a lot better as a team.
ANTAWN JAMISON

I'd be all for it. I know that's up to management, not us. But we might have to bring him back. We d...
ANTAWN JAMISON

It was very expensive to go there.
BERNICE JAMISON

She said her heart had been broken into 10,000 little pieces. She said she loved me like a mother. W...
BERNICE JAMISON

She found out he was two-timing on her. She told me some time ago she was going to kill him. I wasn'...
BERNICE JAMISON

I’m in the habit of employing either sharks or mice.
ERIN JAMISON

Now I have my pep in my step. I have that swagger. I feel like myself again. I'm just playing hard. ...
ANTAWN JAMISON

Nessa held her arm up. She was staring at it, trying to gauge how big that was. “Dude, that’s as...
ERIN JAMISON

The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights complete...
JUDITH JAMISON

You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio ...
JUDITH JAMISON

If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, tha...
JUDITH JAMISON

Intense creative episodes are, in many instances, indistinguishable from hypomania
KAY JAMISON

All of the great ones have gone through it. You can't let a guy pick you apart and not be aggressive...
ANTAWN JAMISON

What then after the medications, psychiatrist, despair, depression, and overdose? All those incredib...
KAY JAMISON

Everybody knows Gilbert. We don't understand how it's possible (for him to be omitted). But it happe...
ANTAWN JAMISON

Oh yeah, ... Playoffs for sure. We could definitely make a lot of noise. We could make a run to win ...
ANTAWN JAMISON

It's always good to have my family and friends come see me play.
ANTAWN JAMISON

I think everybody is stepping up their play because they know the importance of these next 20 games....
ANTAWN JAMISON

We just took care of business.
ANTAWN JAMISON

Defensively, we've got to make it tough on them. They're one of the best scoring teams in the league...
ANTAWN JAMISON

There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness...
KAY JAMISON

I tell young people that people aren't just going to flock to you as your mentors. You have to s...
JUDITH JAMISON

I knew it was good. I had the adrenaline going and I was feeling it. I didn't hesitate.
ANTAWN JAMISON

You've just got to find a way to win with the situation. [Dealing with the injuries] has been hard b...
ANTAWN JAMISON

We would get down, find a way to get close or take the lead, and they'd come on a nice big run. Thos...
ANTAWN JAMISON

We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it?...
JUDITH JAMISON

My wonderful editor, Jackie Onassis, asked me to write a book that I wanted to write. I said, 'L...
JUDITH JAMISON

I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayl...
JUDITH JAMISON

Dancing is bigger than the physical body. Think bigger than that. When you extend your arm, it doesn...
JUDITH JAMISON

It's right there at your fingertips, anytime you want it. We have our genes being given this feast. ...
DEAN JAMISON

You do not need to have much in the way of resources to acquire good health at a national level. If ...
DEAN JAMISON

Money doesn't necessarily buy health. But today good health is clearly possible at low cost.
DEAN JAMISON

Now that we have a base statistic in front of us, we have to go to work and do the hard work of orga...
DAVID JAMISON

I don't think we can ever give up on individuals. I believe everyone is worthy in the sight of our L...
DAVID JAMISON

Future land use is going to take some discussion. I think that's going to be the major obstacle at t...
DAVE JAMISON

We are on a collision course. The borough is coming this way.
DAVE JAMISON

I had no idea they would attack the boards so much. Offensive boards killed us and that usually does...
DAVE JAMISON

People look at our size and our talent and expect our young guys to play like seniors. They are stil...
DAVE JAMISON

Both teams made plays. When they had to make shots, they clutched up and hit 'em.
DAVE JAMISON

We fouled guys we thought were going to miss and they clutched up and hit them.
DAVE JAMISON

He's one of our captains as a sophomore and he's tough as heck and has a lot of courage. I'm real ha...
DAVE JAMISON

We've got some things to talk about still, but I hope so.
DAVE JAMISON

We talked it all out. I thought it would be best if he didn't play today.
DAVE JAMISON

I've never seen anything like that before.
DAVE JAMISON

That would be useful information so we could judge whether the sensitivity programs that the law-enf...
DANICA JAMISON

This is the only way to measure whether the policies and programs that we have in place now are effe...
DANICA JAMISON

There's a lot of confusion about what data collection means and why we're asking for it.
DANICA JAMISON

It's a wonderful feeling to have the opportunity make that team. It's something not a lot of players...
ANTAWN JAMISON

He always brings his 'A' game against us. He plays well every night, but he has had some spectacular...
ANTAWN JAMISON

It's closer to home, so my family can come see me play.
JAMES JAMISON

All our clothes, and everything else, all our groceries, and all that, everything was in here that w...
JAMES JAMISON

She hollered, 'I can't get out!' I said, 'Don't worry, baby, I'm gonna get you out.' And I got her o...
JAMES JAMISON

I just started to run a hundred percent. It feels great to get a win for Chris (Smith).
JAMES JAMISON

We will have a huge amount of antique odds and ends that we will rotate through the display cases li...
JAMES JAMISON

There is a definite distinction between membership with the club and membership with the museum, ......
JAMES JAMISON

There is a huge interest in antique automobiles everywhere across the country, ... This is the only ...
JAMES JAMISON

We've been working hard, ... Everybody wants to play their hardest every game and get a state title ...
JAMES JAMISON

It's been a really tough time, ... I talked to him about 7 the morning before and things were OK. We...
JAMES JAMISON

It's my job to distribute (the ball). She has to be one of the main scorers.
LINDSAY JAMISON

It's a mood piece about love and relationship, like a slice- of life- pie at 2 a.m. with episodes ...
JUDITH JAMISON

As a dancer, he was quicksilver. He moved like a cat.
JUDITH JAMISON

Don't call me a star. Call me a dancer.
JUDITH JAMISON

and they leave the theatre changed.
JUDITH JAMISON

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.
JUDITH JAMISON

I felt the naivete of a child in my dancing. I cherished that feeling. I had what I call a knowledge...
JUDITH JAMISON

So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's har...
JUDITH JAMISON

Once you've danced, you always dance. You can't deny the gifts that God sends your way.
JUDITH JAMISON

Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.
LESLIE JONES

Growing up in Britain, Michael Caine has always been such an icon. Chatting with him, I know I came ...
ROSE LESLIE

I just know that for my honeymoon, I'm not going to go to a cabin in the woods.
ROSE LESLIE

When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spen...
LESLIE MANN

I've perfected the art of busting on people. That's how comedians show each other love.
LESLIE JONES

A nuclear power reactor is just a fancy way of boiling water.
LESLIE DEWAN

I do have body-image issues, just like everyone else. I mean, I wish I had bigger boobs. And I hate ...
LESLIE BIBB

To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rat...
LESLIE FIEDLER

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would yo...
LESLIE CARON

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can rend...
LESLIE LAMPORT

The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which k...
LESLIE WEATHERHEAD

The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more ...
LESLIE FIEDLER

Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to,...
LESLIE FIEDLER

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
LESLIE STEPHEN

Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the b...
LESLIE WEXNER

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she mana...
LESLIE MCINTYRE

No animal is so inexhaustable as an excited infant.
AMY LESLIE

The truth is that to enjoy acting one must be an exhibitionist at heart, one must revel in those exp...
LESLIE HOWARD

About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly.
LESLIE CHARTERIS

There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made...
LESLIE FIEDLER

I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences don't like dark. They like st...
LESLIE MOONVES

Nuclear power is a young technology - there's so much more to be discovered. That's what mak...
LESLIE DEWAN

It is a pledge that senility has not the last say in everything.
SHANE LESLIE

We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for ...
SHANE LESLIE

A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. ...
SHANE LESLIE

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
SHANE LESLIE

Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets ...
LISA LESLIE

Women love hairy men. Cavemen were the sexiest men in history.
LESLIE MANN

Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be dec...
LESLIE MOONVES

It will be hard work. It's always hard work, and hard work from everybody within the team - tech...
DAVID LESLIE

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough...
LESLIE CARON

The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.
LESLIE CARON

Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really be...
LESLIE FIEDLER

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to i...
LESLIE FIEDLER

As the TiVos and the Replays are coming into our world - and they're coming - it's better to...
LESLIE MOONVES

Child actors don't have great track records.
LESLIE MANN

If you're like me and love chatting about your latest box set addiction, then Sky Box Sets Club ...
ROSE LESLIE

I would support a letter.
ASSEMBLYWOMAN LESLIE

This is about giving consumers better information so they can make better choices for themselves.
ASSEMBLYWOMAN LESLIE

You've had a year. I know people turn over and that those things happen. ... But I don't think we wa...
ASSEMBLYWOMAN LESLIE

We've got to start somewhere. I want to see something in place.
ASSEMBLYWOMAN LESLIE

There is a certain amount of coercion that is implied. My general reaction is (this is) a disturbing...
ASSEMBLYWOMAN LESLIE

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable...
LESLIE STEPHEN

Going into auditions, there is a wonderful butterfly feeling in your stomach - an equal balance of b...
ROSE LESLIE

I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.
LESLIE NIELSEN

When you are on assignment, you stick to the facts, limit your vision, and often cut out the most re...
LESLIE COCKBURN

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
LESLIE FIEDLER

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
LESLIE STEPHEN

Think about back in the day when we had Archie Bunker, 'The Jeffersons.' We had stuff to sit...
LESLIE JONES

I do love archery in my day-to-day life because I find it very therapeutic, and I've trained eve...
ROSE LESLIE

Now that I know how to handle a bow and arrow, I find it very therapeutic. It is a brilliant way to ...
ROSE LESLIE

I take care of everybody. I'm either hugging you or making sure that you're not sick, becaus...
LESLIE JONES

What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a be...
LESLIE FIEDLER

For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.
LISA LESLIE

I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the ...
LESLIE CHARTERIS

It is too soon to tell, but old, tired 'Survivor' last night beat 'X Factor.' We'...
LESLIE MOONVES

It is so inspirational, to see that in the world of Westeros, men are answering to women, and they a...
ROSE LESLIE

I personally have been drawn to female roles who are incredibly strong; females who are dominant and...
ROSE LESLIE

There are plenty of people who are willing to pay $2.6 million for 30 seconds on the Super Bowl and ...
LESLIE MOONVES

It's kind of ridiculous, but I hate creepy crawlers. Like centipedes. It's just the fact tha...
ROSE LESLIE

It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I&#...
LESLIE NIELSEN

CBS is proud to have been the home of David Letterman since 1993. He is truly one of the great talen...
LESLIE MOONVES

With 'Honeymoon,' it was so intimate, and we literally shot it in something like 20, 24 days...
ROSE LESLIE

For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rul...
LESLIE CHARTERIS

The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of co...
LESLIE CHARTERIS

With 'Game of Thrones' you're not really dealing with anything that is based in reality....
ROSE LESLIE

All the things you put off, like learning to play the piano or leaning a different language? You'...
LESLIE MANN

Mum and Dad paid me 50 pence, which was a lot of money when I was 8 years old, not to dye my hair.
ROSE LESLIE

I had all the intentions of being the next Eddie Murphy.
LESLIE JONES

I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the tri...
LESLIE NIELSEN

Whether [CDC is] acquiring the right companies or not, the strategy makes sense.
LESLIE AMENT

Aberdeen research revealed that a majority of enterprises cited customer data integration and qualit...
LESLIE AMENT

For low-priced, commodity-type products, automation is the most realistic venue as profit margins di...
LESLIE AMENT

Organizations would do well to build decision trees and develop workflow processes to handle probabl...
LESLIE AMENT

For low-priced, commodity-type products, automation is the most realistic venue as profit margins di...
LESLIE AMENT

There is more communication within smaller organizations.
LESLIE AMENT

Organizations have spent millions capturing, analyzing and applying customer intelligence with the g...
LESLIE AMENT

Organizations are pressured to grow revenues, reduce costs, and provide higher levels of customer se...
LESLIE AMENT

This is going to steamroll.
LESLIE ALPERSTEIN

The stock market might be a variable, but I think it's totally trumped by other factors right now,
LESLIE ALPERSTEIN

This is going to steamroll,
LESLIE ALPERSTEIN

This problem with the President makes it even dimmer yet, ... He's hurt by this. No question.
LESLIE ALPERSTEIN

The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.

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The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.

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