Nell Zink Quotes
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I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
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Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
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I think the system is broken; most people think that it's broken. And we think that what we're going to do is invigorate the political system and allow for this country to be turned around.
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I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.
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I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
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Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
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Kmart's as much a part of my history as 'Charlie's Angels.' Twenty-five years! It's not just a celebrity brand.
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I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.
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I was raised on farms by people who didn't have Wal-Mart. They had to make their own sleds, harnesses, clothing, etc.
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I do know dumb-ass questions when I see dumb-ass questions.
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Kanga said to Roo, 'Drink up your milk first, dear, and talk afterwards.' So Roo, who was drinking his milk, tried to say that he could do both at once . . . and had to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwards.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people.
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Tenemos que ser muy conscientes de que debajo de cada enfermedad hay una prohibición. Una prohibición que viene de una superstición.
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Mummy, Bea and I call ourselves 'the Tripod' - they are my best friends in the world.
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This journey started about 42 years ago in a little town of Brunswick, Georgia.
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In a world gone bad, a bear - even a bear standing on its head - is a comforting, uncomplicated, dependable hunk of sanity.
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The way I look at music, what I'm interested in is not necessarily creativity - in many ways I think creativity is overrated, actually. What I think is important is authenticity. I want to hear music that has the resonance of the people. I want to hear music that is an amplification of them. Because then, I can experience the people. But because the music has become so institutionalized, everyone is learning and regurgitating the same material in the same way.
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My social status in the last year has gone from zero to hero.
