Cecily Brown Quotes
I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this?
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I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.
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I want to go skydiving. I'd love to go to the Galapagos. Nature still excites me.
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It's unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who's wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you're looking taller, shoulders back, body curved.
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Prayer is the hard-work business of Christianity, and it nets amazing results.
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He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.
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No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.
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Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse. Suicide eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better.
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So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.
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I've had singing lessons and plan to show off.
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Lord Nicholas St. John was their only hope, and she had been on the roof when he arrived, for heaven's sake. Ladies did not go traipsing about on rooftops. And certainly gentlemen did not frequent the homes of those ladies who did traipse about on roortops. It did not matter if the rooftop in question was in dire need of repair. Or that the lady in question had no choice.
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It's time to do something different. Mind you, I'm grateful to have my career with The B-52s, but it's nice to have fun and play with my voice.
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Masculine anger is always because you are feeling constrained, trapped by life. Feminine anger is always because you are feeling unloved.
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The person who has the strong ownership of free speech is the one who owns the press.
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The safest way to ensure diversity of opinion is diverse ownership. But this ideal has been sacrificed by our government.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Go in fear of abstraction.
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I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this?
