Maggie Nelson Quotes
In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
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In the past, I used to argue with those who didn't share my views. I felt this incredible need to 'make my point.' Now I live my life and do my best to be an example of what seems right to me.
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
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I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
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I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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I don't believe in 'thinking' old. Although I've transitioned through many bodies - a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult - my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.
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If I've learned anything in my career, it's that nothing worthwhile in life comes easy. That's just the way it is.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker.
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Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.
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I was young not too long ago, and I know the last thing you want is someone preaching to you.
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One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.
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Infinity is a territory toward which the inherent human impetus of conquest can be productively directed.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
