Nikky Finney (Lynn Carol Finney) Quotes
My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.
Nikky Finney
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You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.
Pat Meehan
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My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The Thing,' 'Halloween,' 'An American Werewolf in London,' and 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'... and 'Hatchet' is so obviously inspired by those films that I may as well have made it in 1984.
Adam Green
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The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
A. Whitney Brown
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Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our borders is an essential aspect of our national security.
Randy Neugebauer
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Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.
Imre Kertesz
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Samuel Johnson
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This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.
Tavis Smiley
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To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.
Eduardo Chillida
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In a modern world where a majority of women say, 'I don't need you, I've got my money, I've got my stuff,' I say, 'I desperately need men.' My whole album is a tribute to men. It takes a man in me to tell you that I'm on my knees for men.
Lou Doillon
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What we're doing with Airbnb feels like the nexus of everything that is right. We're helping people be more resourceful with the space they already have, and we're connecting people around the world.
Joe Gebbia
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My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.
Nikky Finney
