Maggie Nelson Quotes
I feel excited in that I think boys born to feminists have a leg up. At least, the ones I've met seem like they do. There's something really vital about that exchange. I think I'd only imagined, beforehand, handing down a feminism to a young girl. But I'm newly excited by the challenge of raising a boy.
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My day-to-day look is inspired by comfort, color and just how I'm feeling that day.
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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.
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Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.
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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.
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The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
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Most people don't know how to tell stories.
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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
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All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
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They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.
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I have some sarcastic sides of me.
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I did the Vines first, and then I chose Instagram because the filters were better, and you could post the best picture of yourself, which I figured would help my modeling career.
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I'm not sure what 'cheeky' means. I hear it used so much and in so many different ways, I can't identify the real meaning of it.
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I have only recently got interested in film, and it is a strange way of working in many ways. But actually, when it is at its best, it's quite an extraordinary way of working between a director and an actor, to really explore an inner life.
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I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.
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The personal computer can be a virtual device.
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Obviously the election surprised everybody and we had to adjust in the story room, we did a lot of work trying to figure in this idea that Donald Trump was now the president, and it became quickly apparent then that a lot of stuff that was happening in the real world was more uncertain than what we were dramatizing.
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I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.
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I feel excited in that I think boys born to feminists have a leg up. At least, the ones I've met seem like they do. There's something really vital about that exchange. I think I'd only imagined, beforehand, handing down a feminism to a young girl. But I'm newly excited by the challenge of raising a boy.
