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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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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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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We declare war against socialism, not because it is socialism, but because it has opposed nationalism.... We intend to be an active minority, attract the proletariat away from the official Socialist party. But if the middle class thinks that we are going to be their lightning rods, they are mistaken.
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I wrote poetry and short stories. I would send them to magazines; they wouldn't get in. But short stories are how I found philosophy and how I'd understand the world.
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Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.
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When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: money.
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I stayed strong, and I believed in myself and to finish up a strong program and get a standing ovation and then to have the judges give me great marks on top of that was everything I could have asked for.
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
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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.
