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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I eat a salad every single day. I also have been doing the juice 'thing' after every workout, and I try to drink a half-gallon of water a day.
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I saw the 'Wizard of Oz' recently and realized that, all my life, I thought they were real monkeys with wings. That's how scary that movie was for me.
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Women are as much politicians as men, and I hope that more and more women will enter public life through politics, as this would not only increase participation of women in public life but also have a salutary effect for the amelioration of women's status in India.
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I basically look at how exponential emerging technological changes runs counter-intuitive to the way our linear brains make projections about change, and so we don't realize how fast the future is coming.
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I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.
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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.
