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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I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'
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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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The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.
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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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It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
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I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
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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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Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them.
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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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Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
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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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We're still expecting capitalism to solve problems: 'Maybe if we sell enough oil, we can give some profits to an environmental agency!' Capitalism isn't a moral system.
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I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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There's all kind of things going on in the world that I don't like but I can't change. But at least I can say, 'Change the way you eat!'
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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.
