Emma Goldman Quotes
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I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
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When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.
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If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.
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I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.
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After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.
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My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.
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If you only share your best pictures, or your Facetuned self, the thought of people seeing you as you truly are can be scary.
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The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
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It's in all of our interests to keep pushing athletes to see the big picture, and that's sometimes very difficult.
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Language is the house of the truth of Being.
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The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
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Mullah Faizullah: It wasn't your fault,Mariam. Don't think this way. This will destroy you, my girl. It wasn't your fault.
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The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
