Nuala O'Faolain Quotes
Let me just say that I am not often lonely in country places. In cities I am, like the writers of the letters. Nature doesn't break your heart: other people do. Yet, we cannot live apart from each other in bowers feeding on nectar. We're in this together, this getting through our lives, as the fact that we are word-users shows.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
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Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
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I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
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Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
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Obviously ,you want to demand the puck; you want to have it as much as you can because you feel like good things can happen when it's on your stick.
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I must have been a really pretentious little girl.
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Luckily I've had a lot of great friends that I've had for a long time.
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People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
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Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dressing women still had a strong female identity that I never had.
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Let me just say that I am not often lonely in country places. In cities I am, like the writers of the letters. Nature doesn't break your heart: other people do. Yet, we cannot live apart from each other in bowers feeding on nectar. We're in this together, this getting through our lives, as the fact that we are word-users shows.
