Jane Hirshfield Quotes
At some point, I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it; that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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I'm a composer, man.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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I just work hard and do things as they come along. But it has been a challenge to learn that I have to say 'no' to things and to know how and what to prioritize.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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'We have to level the ground, Sir, because God didn't think of gunners when he made the world. He made too many lumps and not enough smooth spots. But we're very good at improving His handiwork, sir.'
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Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
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I don't usually experience that because there are few people who intimidate me, but Woody was one of them.
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The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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At some point, I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it; that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.
