Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes
The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.
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I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.
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Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!
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One of my favourite activities is eating.
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I guess I started running when I was about 18 and... I feel like it assists my creativity a bit because it completely just flushes everything out.
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When you sing in English and Spanish, it's two completely different forms of expression and... even the people who don't speak Spanish love to hear me sing in Spanish.
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Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.
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[Elijah Wood] is a really fully-rounded, amazing human being, and I feel incredibly lucky, especially given how closely we have to work together.
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Vision is an intelligent form of thought
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Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.
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If the Mormon Church still supported polygamy, and if it appeared to be a system that was not exploitative of women, I wouldn't feel that it's my place to forbid it.
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I wanted to educate myself about the world and I wanted to know what was happening to people in other countries. I feel now I have only just begun.
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Two broken pieces making a whole.
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We are all carrying so many things in our life and inside ourselves. Often it feels there is no place to put them down. Where do you place the questions you carry
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Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.
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It's a little hard for me to stand behind the walls of the great mansion and play rock and roll star. I feel the need to give back.
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Supply and demand regulate architectural form.
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But I wondered, how would I feel about killing someone? Now I know. It’s no big deal.
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My favourite tea is lapsang souchong.
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I don't apply [being a role model] to the choices I make. I feel like a role model is not necessarily someone you want to imitate, just someone you admire.
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I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.
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I was sort of lazy at school, but I realize I still have something to bring to the subject which is comforting. I feel I am not as stupid as I thought I was.
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The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.
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The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.
