Rebecca Solnit Quotes
If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.
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I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.
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Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.
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I miss baseball.
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I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.
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If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.
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With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a clue.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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Hollywood forgets easily. I want to be fulfilled and challenged.
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I've always known from the beginning of my acting career that you only get an acting job if you've got something to learn about it. If you don't do it well, you'll be condemned to doing the same role over and over and over again. If you do it mediocre, you'll have to do it again.
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Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.
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I've been watching 'Californication' since the pilot aired and had always thought that it would be so much fun to guest star on.
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When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.
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My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.
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During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
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I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.
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To me, a purely good individual or purely bad individual, that's a comic book – that's a fantasy – and I don't do fantasy.
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I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.
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I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway.
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You cannot become Happy, You can only Be Happy.
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The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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If you set your bar at 'amazing' it's awfully difficult to start. Your first paragraph, sketch, formula, sample or concept isn't going to be amazing. Your tenth one might not be either. Confronted with the gap between your vision of perfect and the reality of what you've created, the easiest path is no path. Shrug. Admit defeat. Hit delete. One more reason to follow someone else and wait for instructions. Of course, the only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing. But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you are.
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As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.
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If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.
