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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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 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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I don't preach or try to impress my views upon people.
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I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.
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Look at what happened in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast when Katrina hit. People ask me whether they thought race was the reason the response was so slow. I say, 'well, no, this administration was colorblind in its incompetence.' But, everyone here knows that the disaster and the poverty happened long before the hurricane hit.
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We've lived through some extraordinary moments, and the saddest moments as well. We have to learn.
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The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I try not to read too many reviews when a book first comes out.
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Institutionalized racism has been with us pre-Obama, and it obviously will be with us post-Obama.
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I went to New York and Miami and hung out by the beach, and I love the American boys, so I wrote a song about it.
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There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.
