Norman MacCaig Quotes
And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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I'm relieved that after all these years of doing atrocity work, I still cry my eyes out every time I read the paper in the morning. It's surprising, actually.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a long memory - they said no and Bill Gates said yes.
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Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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It's better to be honest about your opinions than to pretend you don't have them.
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I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career.
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I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people.
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I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
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Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell the story, they miss a facet that is innately part of all of us - the spiritual.
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I've certainly had periods when I felt like life was winning and I was losing, so I think everybody can relate to that quandary - the temptation to give in, to give up, and then what It takes to keep going.
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I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.
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Everything that pushes up out of the earth I love. Everything under the earth, root vegetables, I love to cook.
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Have no regrets. Every relationship leads you to where you're meant to be. Learn to be comfortable with being alone. Learn to be comfortable with saying no to people; we put everybody else before ourselves. Read great literature; don't get all your information from TV. Define your moral code - nobody else is going to give you that. Find it yourself. Keep asking questions, keep challenging. You don't have to conform. Rebellion creates character. And, as my mother always said to me, "Don't let anyone break your spirit!"
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My journey through life has led me through both light and dark places, and it's because of those experiences that I have learned how to work through my character defects and to help others do the same.
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We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism.
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My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.
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And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.
