Maggie Nelson Quotes
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
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I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.
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When you're placed in a world where survival is the main focus, a lot of that other stuff, like wrongdoings in the past, become obsolete. You have to focus on the here and now.
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I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to lay them down becomes the difficulty.
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Both of my grandfathers were in the service. It's one of those things that you can't be thankful enough for.
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I've got good intuition.
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It's a lot easier to write about people when you're not living with them!
