K. Flay Quotes
I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present in any given moment.
Quotes to Explore
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
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It's strong to be vulnerable. To be able to communicate with other women is one of the most powerful things.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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A beautiful girl can make you dizzy, like you've been drinking Jack and Coke all morning. She can make you feel high full of the single greatest commodity known to man - promise. Promise of a better day. Promise of a greater hope. Promise of a new tomorrow. This particular aura can be found in the gait of a beautiful girl. In her smile, in her soul, the way she makes every rotten little thing about life seem like it's going to be okay.
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My career is a journey for me, and any journey is incomplete without the struggle.
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You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.
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Sooner or later, each desire must encounter its lassitude: its truth...
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It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.
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I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present in any given moment.
