Nicole Brossard Quotes
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
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To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
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People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.
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Anything that consoles is fake.
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There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there.
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I heard your suitcase say goodbye
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When you get that signing bonus, don't start thinking about all the things you can do with $1 million.
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I was really dramatic, really concerned with love or life.
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We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.
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I loved Charles Addams more than anything. Still love him.
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For me, when I read a book, I'm very much about detail.
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This world of 'Star Wars' is just so accepting and beautiful that the idea a droid and a human are trying to waddle their way into a relationship is something that's celebrated.
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If there's a stereotype that you're not supposed to be good at something, that still gets so badly in your way of concentrating.
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We're drawn to making our mark, leaving a record to show we were here, and a journal is a great place to do it. Once you start drawing, writing, and gluing stuff in every day, it can quickly become a habit - addictive, even. Your attitude should be: 'I can do this, but I mustn't make it too intimidating.'
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I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the news. The punchline comes to me, and I go over it in my head and get the song form. I hadn't been doing that a lot.
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The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character.
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The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.
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Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.
