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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Crouching down inside a deep ravine,Those angry cries pass quickly by, he can't be seen.So many ways spent hiding in so many undone plans;Forgetting what it's like to fight when no one understands.
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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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'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
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You're always going to feel like you're catching up, and part of that is just balancing work and motherhood and the whole feeling of needing to please, which I do think girls and women feel more than men.
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I'm enjoying [my career]. If anything I'm aware that the pressure of the first, I suppose, six or seven years I was in America - I mean that energy of having such a rapid and ascending celebrity - it's not there anymore. It's the end of that chapter and now I'm just enjoying the work probably more than I ever have and yet I'm simultaneously less attached to it I think, which is kind of a strange state of grace to be in.
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A stroke of the sword that does not hit its target is the sword stroke of death; you reach over it to strike the winning blow. Your adversary's inititive having missed its mark, you turn the tables arround and get the jump on your adversary.
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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
