Edith Södergran Quotes
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I write in a small office at home.
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For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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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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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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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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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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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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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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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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It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.
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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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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I think I'm really part of a whole generational movement in a way. I think a lot of other people since and during this time have gotten interested in writing what we can still call experimental music. It's not commercial music. And it's really a concert music, but a concert music for our time. And wanting to find the audience, because we've discovered the audience is really there. Those became really clear with Einstein on the Beach.
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Sometimes I would get invited to a party or to go out to dinner by one of them and I would decline. Part of me wanted to go, but those kind of outings always made me feel even more alienated than usual. Hearing them talk made me feel lonely and hateful at the same time. Lonely because I didn't fit in, never did. When I was reminded, it hurt. And hateful because it reaffirmed what I already knew, that I was alone and on the outside.
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Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
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I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
