Warsan Shire Quotes
Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
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I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.
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I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.
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'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
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I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.
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I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.
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We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.
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Music was as natural as breathing in our house.
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When you have an emotion you are recruiting a variety of mechanisms that came in the long history of evolution, long before emotions arose, and those mechanisms all had to do with how an organism manages its life.
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As I approach my 90th birthday, my friends are asking how it feels like, to have completed 90 orbits around the Sun. Well, I actually don't feel a day older than 89!
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I don't have the freaking energy to write a memo. I'm out there saving lives.
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The Holocaust of Nazi Germany is certainly no less of a historic crime than the Holocaust that went on for centuries against African-Americans. That process of reparations, and a truth and reconciliation discussion, was extremely helpful in the country of Germany, and we need to have that here.
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I think a lot of times stereotypes come when there are disconnected white writers who maybe have two or three black friends, and they write black characters, and they put them in situations that are ridiculous.
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Information should never be used as a weapon on a team.
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I've made it clear I like Chicago.
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Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
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I'm not that much of a socialist compared to Eisenhower.
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I've always loved music. I listen to music the way a lot of actors watch movies.
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Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.
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Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.
