Arthur Kleinman Quotes
Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too imaginatively walk down those paths - paths of longing, paths of hope, paths of desperation.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.
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I'm a normal guy.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.
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To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.
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I always write the pieces I want to write.
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That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.
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To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.
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Pope Pius XII was meant to go and castigate Hitler for being a air quotes 'Genocidal Fuckhead … air quotes again with bunny rabbit ears'. But he didn't, he wimped out, and for that history has renamed that Pope as 'Pope Gutless Bastard I.'
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Oooh, oh, how many eyesHave seen their dream?Oh, how many armsHave felt their dream?How many hearts, baby...Have felt their world stand still?
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Never. The shot is too big for the cannon.
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Everything isn't always going to be peaches and cream. If it is, then it's fake.
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The good news is hopeful doesn't mean dumb. The bad news is cynical doesn't mean smart.
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You hear stories like that of Canadians trying to get in, but when you go back home, you don't expect that.
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may i be i is the only prayer--not may i be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong today... may i be me....five foot eleven, brown hair/eyed, smart, serious, happy, frustrated, impatient, joyful, running, sleeping, smiling, eating, trying, believing, listening, being & becoming.
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In most of my films I write the music into the script. I'm listening to songs and lyrics that empower the themes of the film. There's a lot of Indigenous music that has not been heard widely and I love the idea of giving that music to the rest of the world.
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Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too imaginatively walk down those paths - paths of longing, paths of hope, paths of desperation.
