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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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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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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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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In brief, when women batter, men’s first priority is to support the women and help them change; when men batter, women’s first priority is to escape the men and put them in prison.
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Well, with a subject like this, I'm afraid I'll have to reply. Apologies to minix-users who have heard enough about linux anyway. I'd like to be able to just 'ignore the bait', but … time for some serious flamefesting!
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It's good for people to look at me and think, 'This guy is doing his thing and enjoying what he's doing and successful at it and living his life.' And that's what I'm doing, and I'm very happy.
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There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.
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I have a problem with objectifying women, but I don't have a problem playing a guy who objectifies women.
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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.
