Jane Rule Quotes
Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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When you have too much scheme, sometimes it's hard to work on all the things you have to, and you can make effort the top priority of your game.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.
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It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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I'm really looking forward to it, if you can imagine floating weightless, watching the world pour by through the big bay window of the space station playing a guitar; just a tremendous place to think about where we are in history.
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Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.
