Meredith Monk Quotes
Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one rather than two different aspects of my life.
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When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
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I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.
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In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
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I am somebody who is constantly hungry to nibble on something.
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Marriage is an exercise in torture.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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I'm the gun guy, a loud guitar Dirty Harry with a ponytail.
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The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.
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A novelist has more talent for written than oral assignments.
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Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls them to their higher selves - or to something higher than their current level of attainment.
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I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part.
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I feel, as a person, very uninteresting.
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Reading has been a part of my life ever since I was born.
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I love the streets, and the streets love me back. And when things ain't going the way they should go, they let you know... and when they happy, you gotta keep 'em happy.
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People who work every day are kind of scared of things they don't understand.
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Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one rather than two different aspects of my life.
