May Sinclair Quotes
At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.
Quotes to Explore
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There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
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Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
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I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.
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I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there.
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I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.
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All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.
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Katie Couric is one of my favorite people.
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In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.
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There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it.
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Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.
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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
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Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.
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Secrecy as deep as this is past possibility without nonexistence as well.
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My definition of Blues is that it's a musical form which is very disciplined and structured coupled with a state of mind, and you can have either of those things but it's the two together that make it what it is. And you need to be a student for one, and a human being for the other, but those things alone don't do it.
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At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.
