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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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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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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There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.
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But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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I just saw 'Men, Women & Children' last night, and it's a devastating movie in a lot of ways, but it's so well done, so well acted.
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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.
