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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One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.
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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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[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body.
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I think too many times people can get rigid in life, put our blinders on, get locked into one way of thinking, and forget that life has many flavors to savor.
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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.
