Dorothea Dix Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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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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I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.
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Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.
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A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians attempting to become scientists as they neared thirty.
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
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Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
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Being able to go forward has been good, you know? I'm lucky to have that ability, to pressure guys and make them falter and wilt.
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The Disney archives, it's 84 years of history. The one way in which I feel I'm a kindred spirit with Walt Disney is that neither one of us ever throws anything away. He never threw anything away.
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Coming up, the music of my era was very conscious. I grew up on Public Enemy, and it was popular culture to be aware. People were wearing Malcolm X T-shirts and Malcolm X hats. It was a very cool thing to know who Malcolm X was. It was all in the lyrics. It was trendy to be conscious and aware.
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I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
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I'm a big fan of monsters. Number one, they're fun, and two, they're such great ways to access the subconscious fears and beliefs of any group of people.
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I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car breaking down there and me being like, 'Well... I guess this is what I'm doing. I just can't find a better alternate.'
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Man is not made better by being degraded.
