Wendy C. Ortiz Quotes
I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by other writers - poets and memoirists especially.
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.
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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.
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The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.
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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
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Love is a state that I would like to exist in continuously.
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A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
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My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office.
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AIDS is the revenge of the rain forest.
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I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by other writers - poets and memoirists especially.
