Stockard Channing (Susan Antonia Williams Stockard) Quotes
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not diminish the art through the category. They enrich it. They renew it with common quandaries of craft and innovation. The category simply allows the quandaries to be seen more clearly.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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I want to serve the people.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.
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One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
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Life actually is this mystery and gift. And every moment of it can be full of real radical joy and wakefulness. And for some reason in our most difficult times, we have the best chance to wake up. Many people will tell you that their divorce or illness or loss of job was the wake up call.
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Clothes are interesting and they're there to be played with. I like the idea of costume rather than fashion.
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In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace.
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As a bureaucracy becomes more established, it develops its own career structure. It is less dependent, and should be less dependent, on individual personalities. Absolutely no one is indispensable.
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I think that most people, and by people I mean journalists, think that I pre-conceive everything and that I spend my afternoons dreaming up self-mythologizing points of interest.
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I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is.
