Melody Carlson Quotes
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I always loved those early Elton John albums. I sort of keep going back there,
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I did photography in summer camp; I did it in high school. The only hard decision I've had to make was whether to go towards photo or film. And I ultimately realized that the type of photo I was interested in was actually photojournalism. And it's a very individualist career, whereas film is a very team-driven medium. So that's why I chose film.
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My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever.
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A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!
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The crowds may miss the outbursts a bit. Sometimes it can be amusing, but other times, when it gets profane, there's no need for it.
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Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
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When white people eat potato chips, they're called white people. When black people eat potato chips, they're called niggas.
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Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.
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It's time to recognize that under the equal protection clause of the United States [Constitution], same-sex couples should have the same rights as anybody else.
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We with Alix MacKenzie had decided we needed further training, and certainly Leach was the one we turned to. So we went to England this summer and we took examples of our work along with us and showed them to Bernard Leach and told him what we were trying to do. And of course he took one look at our work and he said - very quickly he said, "I'm sorry, we're full up," and this was his way of politely saying, you just don't make the cut.
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Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves.
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Shut off the internal bashing.
