Natasha Trethewey Quotes
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In Europe and Sweden, we see boobs on TV, and it's not a big deal. Everyone has them; everyone has seen them.
Malin Akerman
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
Samantha Power
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I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.
Hannah Murray
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Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
Vikram Seth
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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
Pablo Neruda
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Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is.
Patricia Marx
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Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.
Lady Gaga
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Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody.
Vilfredo Pareto
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You can't expect a child not to become a product of his environment. If you're a drinker, you'll raise a drunk. If you're a single mother, traipsing men in and out of your bedroom in front of your girl child - mark my words, in time she'll claim a corner and charge money for what you gave away for free. Kings and queens raise princes and princesses. That's just the way it is.
Bernice L. McFadden
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When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
Dalai Lama
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There are two main organizations that rate charities. They look at their finances and decide whether they are giving enough to the causes they claim to focus on. Something like 80 or 90% of their money actually goes to a charitable purpose.
David Fahrenthold
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Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.
Natasha Trethewey
