Dorothy Salisbury Davis Quotes
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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Nothing is absolute in security.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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I have an emotional attachment with Katihar.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'
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Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.
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I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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Mutual respect is very important in a relationship, and since my work is part of my life, he would have to respect it.
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Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
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Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
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I listen to all kinds of music, honestly.
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Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.
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That was the first time that I really saw my mother as a person. A person who was so much more than just my mother. It was strange to think of her that way.
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The A.N.C. is a national movement. We all - Communists and non-Communists alike - want a nonracial, democratic, united South Africa.
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Flattery makes fools of the best of us.
