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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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
Natalie Cole
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Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
Ramana Maharshi
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I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
Maisie Williams
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
Felicity Jones
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
Jack Adams
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
Caitlin Moran
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The remediableness criterion is an effort to deal symmetrically with real world institutions, both public and private, warts and all. The criterion is this: an extant mode of organization for which no superior feasible form of organization can be described and implemented with expected net gains is presumed to be efficient.
Oliver E. Williamson
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
Kaia Gerber
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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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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
Nadia Comaneci
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It's really fun to go back and forth from acting projects to directing projects. You don't have as much responsibility when you're acting, but you have more fun. But then you miss having that responsibility, and so you go back and torture yourself and make a movie.
Katie Aselton
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To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.
Patrick Ness
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And though we do have him before our eyes, masked in the Sacred Host, at mass and Benediction and within our lips receive him at communion, yet to hear of him and dwell on the thought of him will do us good.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.
Nikky Finney
