Rebecca Solnit Quotes
The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events and we are forever picking out constellations from it to fit who and where we are.
Quotes to Explore
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
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Hillary stood with us, as she has stood with so many over the years, and we are proud to stand with her for our country now.
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I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
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I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
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I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
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All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
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Words that weep and tears that speak.
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Endurance is mind over matter.
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I love, love, love, love, love, love Naeem Khan. Every dress he makes looks like it belongs in a museum. You put it on, and you feel like royalty.
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The day I came in and found another actor's name on my dressing room door, and my stuff out in the hall, that was the day I learned my lesson.
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I already have a Tony for my Broadway concert in '73. It's one of the most precious things I've won.
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Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.
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But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today, and may be gone tomorrow.
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Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.
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The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events and we are forever picking out constellations from it to fit who and where we are.
