Etel Adnan Quotes
Mount Tamalpais became my house. For Cezanne, Sainte-Victoire was no longer a mountain. It was an absolute. It was painting.Etel Adnan
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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Our fashion style is very legendary and very classic. I feel like it's different, and I feel like everybody got our own different style to bring to the table.
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You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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I think a lot of things could be handled locally.
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We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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She had a very agreeable smile; it did not light up her face suddenly, but seemed rather to suffuse it by degrees with charm. It hesitated for a moment about her lips and then slowly travelled to those great shining eyes of hers and there softly lingered.
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All you have to do is say Fuck Off when the vagina doctor calls.
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I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.
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Things felt pretty crazy on earth in 1969, but the cosmos was friendly. Astronauts had round-trip tickets; they got home.
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God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear.
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When state funding for Irvine public schools began to diminish some time ago, my Irvine Company colleagues helped me to provide private funding support for continuation of basic science, art and music programs that had been eliminated by lack of state funding.
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You have to laugh through hard things, right? How else do you cope?
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The wussiest thing a guy can do is drive a clean truck. Dents, scratches and mud - that's manly.
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I think my mom drove by a nuclear power plant when she was pregnant. But I wouldn't be in 'The Station Agent' if she hadn't.
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If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.
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The water which rises in the mountain is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.
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The first duty of wine is to be red. The second is to be a Burgundy.
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The Hudson River lay flat and black like a lost evening glove. The clouds parted overhead as the distant moon threw a single, bright beam over lower Manhattan as though it were looking for its other half.
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Mount Tamalpais became my house. For Cezanne, Sainte-Victoire was no longer a mountain. It was an absolute. It was painting.
Etel Adnan
