R. K. Milholland Quotes
I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
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The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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America is a meritocracy.
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My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.
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Network cable reads are always kind of stressful because it's the first time everyone's read through it out loud.
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People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior is better predicted from their beliefs than from the actual consequences of their actions.
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'Guess now who holds thee?'-'Death,' I said. But thereThe silver answer rang-'Not Death, but Love.'
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And after his death - or even before it, perhaps - he lived on in camp legend as a demented old man of seventy who had once written poetry in the outside world and was therefore nicknamed The Poet. And another old man - or was it the same one? - lived in the transit camp of Vtoraya Rechka, waiting to be shipped to Kolyma, and was thought by many people to be Osip Mandelstam - which, for all I know, he may have been. That is all I have been able to find out about the last days, illness and death of Mandelstam. Others know very much less about the death of their dear ones.
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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.
