Anna Journey Quotes
I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this kind of language as ars poetica - if we can find the right combination of words, we can make something improbably or extraordinary happen.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.
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When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did.
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
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I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
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People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics.
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You always want your films to go as far as they can.
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I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.
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Don't worry so much where you live but how you live. Make the family of man your family as well. ( Edgar Cayce On the Millennium Chapter One - The great new planet earth. )
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Every generation finds the drug it needs.
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He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
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My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I'm like Britney Spears!
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There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive war while another is fighting, sacrificing, or dying for national preservation.
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I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.
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Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease.
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I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this kind of language as ars poetica - if we can find the right combination of words, we can make something improbably or extraordinary happen.
