Nicole Brossard Quotes
Memewars is electricity in language, eccentricity at its best where 'there's a profusion of presents.' This book makes eye contact with she and with me. It reminds me how being a reader can be exciting.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
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One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
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While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
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I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
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Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.
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We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.
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I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.
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At NSD, I had an amazing experience learning everything from stagecraft to western drama and Shakespeare, Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekov.
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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
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I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.
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Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
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Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.
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When we speak of the commerce with our American colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
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To me, torture would be watching sports on television.
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I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
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My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuchang. We four children spoke Chinese before we spoke English. We left when the communists came, in the early 1930s. I was about 5 years old.
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LNG is a fossil fuel. LNG is imported.
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I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.
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There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they have left us.
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Memewars is electricity in language, eccentricity at its best where 'there's a profusion of presents.' This book makes eye contact with she and with me. It reminds me how being a reader can be exciting.
