Cosima Spender Quotes
I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.
Cosima Spender
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I don't care if you are for having Mexico pay for the border wall, or you want to repeal and replace Obamacare, or if you want women to have complete access to reproductive rights - I don't care. The fact is, if you don't get the nuclear issue right, none of the other ones matter.
Valerie Plame
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I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.
Mamie Gummer
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
Magic Johnson
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
Dana Spiotta
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Florence Nightingale
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You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.
Malik Jackson
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Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
W. H. Auden
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I trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute at Tisch, which is a huge foundation for young actors. They teach you their methods and give you the sense that acting is much more tangible than most people think. I think there's a mysticism of what acting is, in the fact that it's this ungraspable, spur-of-the-moment thing that nobody can understand.
Roberto Aguire
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A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.
Orhan Pamuk
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I've tried every context imaginable, but the trio is the most demanding. It's very difficult to get an orchestral sound out the trio, but we do because I think orchestrally. The trio allows me a lot of space. I can play solo piano, duets with the bassist, drums and piano. Playing at optimum level is the challenge. What's necessary for me is establishing a meaningful statement musically; and my experiences dictate certain musical utterances; and my training and inherent sense of judgment all feed into this. I already know what is happening before I reach the bandstand ninety per cent of the time. The value lies in my skill to interpret a song. It may go better than I planned, in some instances, but it's not going to go any worse
Ahmad Jamal
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The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.
Terence McKenna
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I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.
Cosima Spender
