Edith Södergran Quotes
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For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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I watch a lot of football.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.
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If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.
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The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'
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I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.
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I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.
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The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.
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I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'
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My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
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I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.
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In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.
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I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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Victory will be ours soon, Iraqis will strike the necks as God has commanded you.
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We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.
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I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
