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.

  

  Rachel Nichols
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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.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
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• You can't control where your heart goes.

  

  Laura Prepon
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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.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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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.

  

  Laura Dern
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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.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
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• Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
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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.

  

  Edan Lepucki
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• If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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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.

  

  Bear Bryant
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• Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.

  

  Facundo Pieres
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• Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.

  

  Rachel Roy
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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.

  

  Katha Pollitt
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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.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
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• A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
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• I suppose women are attracted to the bad-boy image sometimes because it's fun to have an adventure. It's like eating junk food... it's fun at the time, but ultimately not the best choice.

  

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• There have been plenty of chances to close my eyes and go back to the sleep of my life as it was, but I hadn't taken any of them. Do I wish now that I had? It's hard to answer that question, as the wraiths move closer.

  

  Lisa Unger
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• Donors, like voters, increasingly expect candidates to exercise fiscal discipline.

  

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• Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

  

  George Will
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• In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.

  

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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.

  

  Jane Hirshfield
  • Life
  • Experience