Anna Kamienska Quotes
No home anymore. Nowhere to return. My house is a ruin, a cemetery. You may yearn for the grave, but just try living there.
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I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
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Across energy, food, transportation, housing, and all of that, very little of our progress is going to be through getting people to voluntarily consume less. People resist that tremendously. What we have to do, if we want to succeed, is provide more of the clean, non-polluting, climate-safe options in all of these.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.
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Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.
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Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.
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I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
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There were no theatre facilities at the comp that I went to, but I did have amazing teachers who never stopped encouraging me.
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I'm coming into places with some people who just want to hear what I did before, with some people who want to hear me with a band, but I am just at the moment sticking to my guns and saying, 'You know what? I want you just to hear this for a minute. I want it to be in the context of me and a guitar.'
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There are a lot of food Nazis in the U.S., but I believe if you can show people what's really important, they'll judge the rest for themselves.
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After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.
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Everyone his own cinematographer. His own stream-of-consciousness e-mail poet. His own nightclub DJ. His own political columnist. His own biographer of his top-10 friends!
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Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.
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No home anymore. Nowhere to return. My house is a ruin, a cemetery. You may yearn for the grave, but just try living there.
