Edmund de Waal Quotes
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I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong.
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Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.
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The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.
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Democracy is the road to socialism.
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All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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When I'm on family road trips, there is always Ranchera playing.
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I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.
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You remember driving your kids to Little League, and they're nervous about making the team, and you're encouraging them. Forty years down the road, we're having the same conversation. Only it's about the Ravens and Steelers, or Stanford and Cal.
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The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.
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You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.
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We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.
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Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold.
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Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.
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My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.
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Disagreement is something normal.
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Writing makes you feel better, to get it all out.
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I like dresses for night; I like after-party more than party. I like the mystery; I like the dream, like fantasy dresses. I think, also, that you make women dream.
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The clothes, the shoes, the gold belts and the necklaces always click me into the character, for sure. You could not feel the character, and then you put on the shoes and get the walk.
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He stretched his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. 'I know myself,' he cried, 'but that is all - '
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The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.
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There is no straight road to finding yourself, to making something.
