Maggie Nelson Quotes
In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.Maggie Nelson
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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.
Fiona Dourif -
Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
Jack Horner -
It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
Caitriona Balfe -
Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
Naveen Jain -
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
Dalia Mogahed
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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.
Victoria Moran -
In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
Camille Paglia -
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.
Natalie Maines -
In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
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.
Felix Adler -
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.
Yves Saint Laurent
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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.
Wayne Dyer -
I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso -
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.
Sally Hawkins -
If I've learned anything in my career, it's that nothing worthwhile in life comes easy. That's just the way it is.
Carli Lloyd -
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
Madame de Stael
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I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.
Dan Savage -
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
Hans Hofmann -
For every life we live, there are at least eight others we've gotten close to but may never know.
Andre Aciman -
Man's body had a different shape in the past from that of the present, and from that which it will have in the future. During involution it was approximately spherical, as it still is during ante-natal life, because the intra-uterine development is a recapitulation of past stages of evolution.
Max Heindel -
I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.
Jennifer Connelly -
In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
Maggie Nelson