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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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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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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I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
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To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.
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I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
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I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church - and one of the most liberal and forward thinking.
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I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.
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She says that her love for me would never die, but that would change if she found out about you and I.
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What we need is a full field guide to the microbes that live in and on people, so that we can understand what they're doing to our lives. We are them; they are us.
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I'll never know how to live, will you?
