Alice Notley Quotes
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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I miss submitting people; I have a lot of confidence in my jiu-jitsu.
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I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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Once an Armyman, always an Armyman.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.
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Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
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To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.
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Public opinion's always in advance of the law.
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
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Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for things we have to have.
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I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.
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I'll never know how to live, will you?
