Djuna Barnes Quotes
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I always intended the title, 'WARRIOR,' to be about spiritual warfare and warrior lives outside of the cage.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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Recent studies have shown that our creativity is increased by 60% when we're walking. I encourage my workshop participants to write at their desks but think on their feet.
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Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.
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Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.
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Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities - especially visually - with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it.
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
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I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.
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My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81.
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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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International peace and security depend on certain taboos that are easily recognized when they are broken. It can be more important for an intervention to take place because nuclear or chemical or biological weapons are used as opposed to just measuring how many people are killed.
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If we could reach the point where many of our nation's future leaders know what teachers know after teaching successfully in our highest-need schools, we would have a very different situation.
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I do hear from people at my exhibition about seeing these things made from this toy from their childhood, and it brings them back. They'll go and buy a set of Lego from the gift shop because of that nostalgia and seeing it at the art exhibition.
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I will carry on the torch of reviving Japan that the Democratic Party received from the people.
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I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy's tumultuous life - it's 'Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.'
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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
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You don't have to follow what most players do by going to the top school. You can do anything at any school you're at, as long as you're focused and you work hard.
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Who else is the enemy of Nature but he who mistakes himself for more intelligent than Nature, though it is the highest school for all of us?
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I was not concerned. In the past, we would have folded. But I knew that Sam and Mobley would be up to the challenge.
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The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.
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I'm always busy. You know, the more I do, the more ideas I have—that's the funny thing. The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body builder.
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There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.
