Michelle Dean Quotes
The first thing I remember feeling about the 2016 U.S. election was a kind of speechlessness.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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Freedom across the world is a result of many individuals working together.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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I worked with James Orange and Hosea Williams as a teenager, and he's portrayed in the movie by Wendell Pierce. So, for me to be able to come in, 20 years after working with them as a teenager, and to portray Reverend James Orange in 'Selma' is mind-blowing.
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I am a guy who likes those who drive through red lights.
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I'm willing to do whatever I need to do to change.
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Throughout the day, my phone will variously chirp, burp and growl – it's like living with a velociraptor. The last time I went to try to shut it off, the thing bit me.
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The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy.
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It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
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I think just having everybody know who you are is more of a challenge. More than anything about it is just knowing people are watching. I know who I am, so it's watching things I say, what I do. Even if I'm in line at one of the rest stops or something, it's just being on my Ps and Qs at all times more than anything.
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Although there were many who did the dirty on him in the envious world of letters, Stephen
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Wer Wissenschaft und Kunst besitzt, / Hat auch Religion / Wer jene beiden nicht besitzt / Der habe Religion
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The master enjoined not austerity, but moderation. If we truly enjoyed things, he claimed, we would be spontaneously moderate. Asked why he was so opposed to ascetical practices, he replied, 'Because they produce pleasure-haters who always become people-haters - rigid and cruel.'
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I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids.
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Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone. I depended on my brothers for that connection, but to have that feeling of being taken care of... I lost it when my parents passed away.
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A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that.
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The first thing I remember feeling about the 2016 U.S. election was a kind of speechlessness.
