Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.

My parents were inspired by Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas when naming me. They specifically saved this masculine name for their only girl.

I can't say I'm sorry to see that the name 'Nigel' is dying out, but I'd be happier if it wasn't being replaced by made-up names out of TV series 'Game Of Thrones.'

I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.

Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice.

Actually, I don't like dogs. I'm from Morocco, and people there don't like animals.

I think my parents were high when they named me.

Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.

It so depends on each script, because you can say... I always thought I wouldn't have wanted to do something that was kind of like as big and commercial as 'The Dark is Rising,' but I really liked the script. I thought it was really clever.

I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony - and my daughter Grammy.

A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.

Obviously, if I'm in Argentina, I'm going to have a steak, but I don't love meat, really. I always think about where the food came from and who had to get it.

If I'd grown up in Sao Paulo, I'm sure I would've been a great soccer fan.

We almost called the 'Portlandia' show 'Stumptown.' That was the original name.

It's not about choosing a specific genre; that's not how I go about deciding what movies to make.

I changed it to Leslie Hill, only that seemed more like a cocktail pianist. Eventually, being an admirer of Jack Benny, I took his name.

I have always taken up films that I like. And in the process if I have done films which bring out something that could do society good, I think it's great.

I choose films based on scripts.

When I started wrestling, I never wanted to go to WWE. It was the Japanese life for me.

You won't believe it, but my grandfather named me. And the choices were between Sparkle, Sprinkle and Twinkle. So, thank God, they chose Twinkle.

I guess I gravitate towards stories that I like and directors that I want to work with, and I hope that it works out.

Once I got into film, I was never like, 'I want to make comedies.'

I'm good at - or, rather, I like - giving names to characters.

If I like a particular character or story, I usually say yes to the film.

I agree to do a film if I like the subject.