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.
Jane Hirshfield
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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
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
Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
Patricia MacLachlan
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
If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
Caitlyn Jenner
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
A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
Barbara Corcoran
For the most part I have been able to meet all my goals, but I always strive for bigger goals in life so everything's not complete just yet. My first aspiration was to be known as a singer and also as an advocate for sickle cell disease. I try to be that inspiration, you know. It's not as bad as people try to make it seem. I mean, it is, but it's not. People don't have to be afraid of it; they don't have to be held down by it. Try to find triumph in the situation.
Adriel Jeremiah "A.J." Green
I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
J. Cole
I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
Randy Bachman
The Guess Who
Asians ... put more emphasis on order, stability, hierarchy, family and self-discipline than Westerners do.
Chris Patten
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