Alice Notley Quotes
Because we rejected a certain kind of critical language people just assumed that we were dumb.
Quotes to Explore
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
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Hair and make-up always helps. I did always try to be well-groomed, professional at all times. Take your job seriously - but not yourself.
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The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on your tires on your car: as soon as you use them, you are wearing them away. You can't make eternal tires, and it's the same with the human body.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
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Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
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I exercise five days a week at home.
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There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.
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When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.
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Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
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We all borrow and steal and copy from each other, and that's the way I think people get inspired.
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The old saying holds. Owe your banker £1000 and you are at his mercy; owe him £1 million and the position is reversed.
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Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.
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For strictly scientific or technological purposes all this is irrelevant. On a pragmatic view, as on a religious view, theory and concepts are held in faith. On the pragmatic view the only thing that matters is that the theory is efficacious, that it 'works' and that the necessary preliminaries and side issues do not cost too much in time and effort. Beyond that, theory and concepts go to constitute a language in which the scientistic matters at issue can be formulated and discussed.
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Because we rejected a certain kind of critical language people just assumed that we were dumb.
