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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I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.
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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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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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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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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
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A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.
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I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic protection of the individual appeared to me always as the important communal aims of the state.
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Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.
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There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
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I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.
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My social status in the last year has gone from zero to hero.
