Nathalie Handal Quotes
I went to West Texas and started writing a cycle of Americana poems after the space conjured images that, as a child, I only saw on television-John Wayne, cowboys, borderlines. But suddenly, I felt close to these once-foreign imageries and wondered how I'd changed. Each evening brought the darkest skies in the country, and I understood the expansiveness of our inner selves. Ultimately nothing divides us except the worlds and words we allow.
Quotes to Explore
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Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.
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If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
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I'm a horrible golfer.
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I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.
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I don't think you can look at my history and say they love me to death in Silicon Valley.
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I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.
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Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?
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For people worried about the Great Recession and the uncertainty of what is coming next, the characters of 'Mad Men' are good company.
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People will burn through a show in two or three days, and then you're left feeling empty for 51 weeks.
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When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.
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I was born with Spina bifida. That's where you have a hole in your spine, and your nerve endings come out.
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Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is.
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I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.
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In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
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I'm a morning person, so rising at 4-something on weekends is not a huge challenge for me. I am not, however, much of a morning eater - not at that hour, at least.
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I went to West Texas and started writing a cycle of Americana poems after the space conjured images that, as a child, I only saw on television-John Wayne, cowboys, borderlines. But suddenly, I felt close to these once-foreign imageries and wondered how I'd changed. Each evening brought the darkest skies in the country, and I understood the expansiveness of our inner selves. Ultimately nothing divides us except the worlds and words we allow.
