Alissa White-Gluz Quotes
I really like writing poetry and lyrics because it's one thing where I give up control. I don't feel like I need to be in control of it. I just sort of let it happen, and then I know when it's done. I know when it's finished.
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It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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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 just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I'd love to do a musical. I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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I'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There's always things on the computer, things scratched on score paper, legal tablets full of lyrics. It's never not buzzing around me all the time. I'm always doing it.
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A lot of philosophy is bull***t, but a lot of it is what we write songs about too. And it's organizing your thoughts, organizing your intellect.
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I really like writing poetry and lyrics because it's one thing where I give up control. I don't feel like I need to be in control of it. I just sort of let it happen, and then I know when it's done. I know when it's finished.
