Dorothea Dix Quotes
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Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.
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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.
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Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
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I still don't know what Episcopalian means.
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Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?
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I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.
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For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.
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Man is not made better by being degraded.
