Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes
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I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke.
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I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day.
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I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.
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Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.
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I chase after inspiring stories.
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I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'
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I don't smoke and I don't drink alcohol.
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Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.
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I'm not a malicious person. When you get past the tattoos and leather, I give people a fair shake. There are periods when I've sowed some wild oats, no doubt about it. And I can party with some of the heavyweights. There are some stories about me that, yeah, where there's smoke there's fire. But sometimes the smoke is just smoke.
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It's great hearing stories of my mum growing up in Brooklyn, then moving to Florida, having me and growing up with this eccentric, fun family. Although I don't eat a lot of Italian things, because I'm vegan. I was raised on meat and cheese, so I've had enough for anyone's normal life span.
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Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Let's get that straight. OK? We don't do crack. We don't do that. Crack is whack.
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So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future.
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I love telling stories about people that don't normally get written about. It's a different kind of life here. This is a movie from the heart, and it's a little different from the normal movies you'll see.
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I haven't left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we're screwed!
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The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.
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My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.
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Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me
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Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.
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Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.
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Whenever a chef cooks for his own ego rather than his guests, he/she set themselves up for ridicule and failure. In the end, it's the service industry. Our goal is to make our guests happy through our cooking.
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When I left college, I was out of work for three years. I had this dream of being on 'SNL,' and that was all I could imagine.
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Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.
