Susan Stewart Quotes
As traditions of mourning wane, women's role as designated mourners has also vanished. In consequence, the woman elegist must summon her own resources as an artist.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.
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My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.
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I think glamour is synonymous with me.
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It's much easier for me to do an impression of someone real, because you and the audience begin with a baseline understanding of this person's life. And then if you subvert that in any way, it's a little comedy surprise.
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I would still like to own and run a restaurant serving Indian food with a good dollop of Parsi cooking - which you can't seem to get anywhere.
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As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.
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If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.
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In the Dead Sea Scrolls, there are many Aramaic texts from the time of Jesus, so one can get a pretty good idea of what the language of Jesus looked liked.
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My heroes were always Looney Toons, Robin Williams, the Three Stooges. I think everything I do is kinda funny. I think I'm sort of ridiculous.
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I guess my enthusiasm kind of rubs off on people.
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I think the human body is beautiful, and I don't really have a huge problem in dealing with it, but it's the context, the environment and what I feel about it that that makes the difference for me.
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It's funny: 'Next Thing' was written in a time of my life when I was actually really naive and thought that I was wise.
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My belief in God is that God wants you. God wants you to believe in him, or it, whatever you would call it.
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A champion without his belt is like a knight without his sword. I've got to have it.
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
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I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions.
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As traditions of mourning wane, women's role as designated mourners has also vanished. In consequence, the woman elegist must summon her own resources as an artist.
