Dorothy Allison Quotes
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.
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I had this dream in my head of, if I got hired by 'SNL, what that moment would be like. And I dreamed that I would, like, collapse on the sidewalk and cry to the heavens. I got this call, and it didn't happen naturally. But I did it anyway because I wanted to have that moment. So I did collapse.
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The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.
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I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
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For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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Counterintuitive action makes a fellow feel smart.
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The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.
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Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn’t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.
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Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.
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Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
