Joanna Newsom Quotes
In this life, who did you love,beneath the drifting ashes,beneath the sheeting banks of airthat barrenly bore our rations?
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
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God hadn't made me handsome, but he'd given me something, I always felt: funny bones.
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I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
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Muse is going to be part of everyday life as an indispensable tool helping people overcome mental, physical and emotional barriers. It's going to allow us to free ourselves in ways we never thought possible.
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Whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom...
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In this life, who did you love,beneath the drifting ashes,beneath the sheeting banks of airthat barrenly bore our rations?
