Rebecca Solnit Quotes
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I'm probably not going to develop to a final state as an artist. Like, become better and better, more and more refined. Become 'pure.' I don't think that's going to happen to me, because I don't really see that as something I want to explore.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
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It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.
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Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.
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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.
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Sports should not become routine. It should be about passion.
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When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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I want to find a man and have a family.
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This is a shameful thing to say, but I've never really got that 'grown-up' mind-set. I have to buy forks? Why?
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task.
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The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations: It’s a process, not an event.
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The process of transformation consists mostly of decay.
