Jessica St. Clair Quotes
My parents sold my childhood home, and I literally was 35 years old, but I cried for, like, two and a half weeks. Like, openly wailed.
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I don't care if I never see Texas again.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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The fact that we walked away from the Middle East, as distasteful as it was for us to stay involved and prevent wars, based on our long involvement there, we have helped to create and provide a foundation. Obviously for ISIS and also for the absolute barbarianism and human catastrophe that Assad impacted on his people.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.
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I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.
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The means that make one qualified for enquiry are meditation, yoga, etc. One should gain proficiency in these through graded practice and thus secure a stream of mental modes that is natural and helpful.
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Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.
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The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. After all, we have already corrupted the world with power and greed....which hasn't gotten us anywhere - now's the time to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants.
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I see my face in the mirror, and I said, 'No, my ambition is not to be an actor.'
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I don't believe you ever get closure on anything. Things leave a permanent mark on you.
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My parents sold my childhood home, and I literally was 35 years old, but I cried for, like, two and a half weeks. Like, openly wailed.
