Mike Patton Quotes
Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.
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In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.
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The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.
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Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited free-association.
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I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.
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I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.
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Humanity seized to exist when Israel was established.
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As a performer, I would say a drag queen that is performing and not knowing her words; as well as a drag queen that is lacking originality.
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I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.
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As soon as anybody puts anything on film, it automatically has a point of view, and it's somebody else's point of view, and it's impossible for it to be yours.
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Poring over fragments of other people's lives, peering into their bedrooms when they don't know we're there, we thrill to the glamour and the power of secret knowledge, partly detoxified but also heightened by being shared.
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Those who are gone, you have. Those who departed loving you, love you still; and you love them always. They are not really gone, those dear hearts and true; they are only gone into the next room; and you will presently get up and follow them, and yonder door will close upon you, and you will be no more seen.
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A serious and composed young actress who won't let a line pass without making certain she's had it in for a private talk and perhaps tea.
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I want to do journalism on journalists. I want to do the stories on stories that aren't being told.
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Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.
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Write what you love and love what you write.
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You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.
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Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
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Both my parents are educators. My siblings and I always had to get good grades no matter what outside interests we had.
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Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.
