Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
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It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.
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My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.
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I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
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On one occasion, I accompanied my father to Pinares de Mayari. I was eight or nine years old. How he enjoyed talking when he left the house in Biran! There he was the proprietor of the land where sugar cane, pasture, and other agricultural crops were planted.
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People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
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My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.
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It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.
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White America is in the minority.
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Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I will confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!
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One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words in your books, don't you?' No doubt he had overheard my mother, who often tells people who ask about my work: 'Well, you'll never find her books in the Christian bookstore.'
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A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.
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Coming up closeEverything sounds like welcome home.Come home and oh, by the way,Don't you know that I could make a dream that's barely half-awake come true?I wanted to say - but anything I could have said I felt somehow that you already knew.
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Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence.
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We used to play football on the levee, with no shirts on in the summer - August in New Orleans - and my skin would turn red. They'd call me Redskin, Red Apache, then it turned around to Apache Red.
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I love my country so much.
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Many people are saying it was wonderful that Mrs. Obama refused to wear a scarf in Saudi Arabia, but they were insulted.We have enuf enemies
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In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
