Nelly Sachs Quotes
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will tell you to get married, and everyone who has a baby tells you to have a baby, everyone who owns a TiVo will tell you to get a TiVo, and they'll say things like 'Your life will be completely different.' It's true.
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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The reason I don't tweet as much as I used to, is because I'm sick of all the useless opinions and hate that I get daily. Goodbye Twitter.
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The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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We all have fears, especially when we're younger. I was afraid of clowns.
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I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.
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Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind.
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Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.
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The reality is that each movie has got to be seen in its own light.
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I really never look at my health issues as 'Woe is me.' I've seen the reality of that. And it's not a pleasant thing.
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To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.
