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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'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.
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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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As far being the face of boxing, I don't like to name myself that. I leave that up to the media and the fans.
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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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Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
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As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going to be very meaningful in your own mental scrapbook.
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There is a lot of history buried in Chicago that I still have yet to discover.
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I don't believe that fashion should exclude people - I have always been about making it accessible to everyone.
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All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.
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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.
