Dorothy Allison Quotes
I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.
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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it's part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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Monetary policy is like juggling six balls... it is not 'interest rate up, interest rate down.' There is the exchange rate, there are long term yields, there are short term yields, there is credit growth.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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Looking for a job, I was working with the Salvadoran American Foundation, a humanitarian aid group, and from there, I got an offer from the Cuban-American National Foundation.
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Very often a job will come along that speaks to the place you're in as a person at that very moment. And usually once I've done it I feel like that part is over.
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It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.
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A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours.
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I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.
