Sonya Hartnett Quotes
Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.
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Whenever I get on stage, I feel safe and in control. Life can be so uncertain, but on stage, I always know how a drama or crisis is going to end. Acting is a great comfort blanket and has gotten me through countless personal crises. I am a firm believer that the show must go on.
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Boys never liked me at school. They made fun of me 'cos I had dark skin.
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Unfortunately, in the race to the most douchebaggery, Silicon Valley is fast in gaining on Hollywood. That race is neck and neck.
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I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.
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I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.
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Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
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I hate to lose but having the belt doesn't define who I am. It's how I live my life and what I put into things is what defines me.
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For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.
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Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.
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I want to be involved with young people in some way. Teenagers. Because that's the most vulnerable time. I have a fantasy of becoming a teacher one day.
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Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing.
