Monica Hesse Quotes
Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other.
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.
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Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.
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People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.
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We need to continue our full support of the nascent Iraqi government by helping to rebuild their economic infrastructure and maintain security while training the Iraqi security forces.
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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.
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I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
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Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.
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I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.
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I was very dramatic - very, like, 'It's never going to happen. My life is over at 16 because I'm not already famous. I'm not going to get my record deal. I'm not going to be able to sing for a living.'
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Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.
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I was about ten when I first got laughs playing Fagin in 'Oliver' at junior school in Offerton. It was the best feeling in the world, and I didn't want it to end.
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The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
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Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.
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Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other.
