Norman MacCaig Quotes
When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
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I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I have a strong affinity for animals.
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I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.
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All I really want to do is plays - and that's a New York thing.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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The project of Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' is exactly that: to assert the beautiful, bountiful, chaotic complexity of one black American male. And, by extension, all black American males.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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Our actions are the ground we walk on.
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My least favorite thing about New York is probably the traffic. I hate it. The people are such aggressive drivers here, they're horrible.
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In fact, we have a choice of freedom of heart to follow God.
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I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are made, they aren't intentional, and I constantly push myself to be a better person.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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A self-defined challenge is an irresistible teacher.
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When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.
