Nicole Brossard Quotes
The lesbian is a mental energy which gives breath and meaning to the most positive of images a woman can have of herself.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
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Sometimes I wonder why I'm not working at McDonald's and how come I have the life I have. I don't know. But I'm happy that I have these choices. That's kinda sappy, huh? But whatever, acting beats pumping gas.
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Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.
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Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
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The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'
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It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
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I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.
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My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
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By the time she had interpreted Harry's dreams at the top of her voice (all of which, even the ones that involved eating porridge, apparently foretold a gruesome and early death), he was feeling much less sympathetic toward her.
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Do the work. Do the analysis. But feel your run. Feel your race. Feel the joy that is running.
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.
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The lesbian is a mental energy which gives breath and meaning to the most positive of images a woman can have of herself.
