Sonya Hartnett Quotes
More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is carried in the reader's heart for a lifetime; it is writing that speaks to the future.
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
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I am happy with my form; I just need to score a couple of goals. I want the ball. I want to create something.
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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The shoes and the eyes are windows to a woman's spirit.
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I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
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I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
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I love reading almost as much as I love writing.
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As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.
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I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
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Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.
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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
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The effect of three things - the new laws, the revision of the tax system, and the elimination of the zaibatsu conglomerates - was to make Japan an egalitarian society for the first time.
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My mentor made me say a poem over and over. 'Stop! That's not your voice. Start again.' I was sobbing by the end, but it drilled into my head that my voice is important.
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You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times.
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But what's interesting is now - and not only in horror, but across the board - the studios basically only make B pictures with A budgets. That's the biggest difference.
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Courage is grace under pressure.
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I don't know if you can catch my vibe, but I'm a pretty laid-back guy.
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I got mail from a prison once.
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More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is carried in the reader's heart for a lifetime; it is writing that speaks to the future.
