Etel Adnan Quotes
There is in Ammiel Alcalay’s work an unabashed tenderness for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different.Etel Adnan
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
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To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
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I used to feel guilty about owning a console.
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I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
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Television was essentially my college.
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My eyes are so bleary I guess I'm young but I feel so weary I've tried to express it But I think its all a bore Its at the heart of me, A very part of me
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'Teen Vogue' fortunately has proved you can have smart, political, and fashionable content delivered in one place, and you don't have to choose.
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Even though writing articles relies completely on truth, you still must tell an interesting story. You can't worry about people knowing who you are and whether or not they want to read your stories.
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It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.
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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
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From the beginning, we promised folks that they'll see whatever event we cover in its entirety, from gavel to gavel - whether it's the House of Representatives or the Senate. That's the whole reason for being.
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The best employees are those who bring real energy and initiative to the job. I like to know whether you're the kind of person who can set priorities, take initiative, and drive results right from the beginning.
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I don't want 100 different cures of cancer. I want, you know, give me five. So if you had, you know, five medicines, you could do away with 90 percent of cancer. That's sort of my objective. I think we're going to do it.
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My priority is to repeal the Iran Nuclear Deal and vote to do that. I think it's extremely dangerous... you don't negotiate with terrorists.
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Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.
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There is in Ammiel Alcalay’s work an unabashed tenderness for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different.
Etel Adnan
