Elaine Equi Quotes
I don't like speed. I would have made a terrible Futurist. Even when I did take drugs, I never liked amphetamines and much preferred the slow taffy-pull of time that you get with opiates.
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Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.
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The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.
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Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'
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What does that suggest when a compound this simple plays such an important role? To me it suggests that nitric oxide is one of the most primitive elements of cellular signaling, that it goes way back into evolution.
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I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.
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I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.
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We were all up there, Dick and Mary and Rosie and Larry Mathews and I looked around and I said, inadvertently, 'Look at this, we could do a show,'
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I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.
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I want to be the girl with the most cake.
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There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it.
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Let mine not be that saddest fate of all To live beyond my greater self; to see My faculties decaying, as the tree Stands stark and helpless while its green leaves fall... "She lives, but all her usefulness is past."
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Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!
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If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.
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I want to communicate. I do; every artist does. That's why you're an artist.
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I am what I am, I am not afraid of what I am, or of people's perception of me.
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I like myself. I think I'm cool. But I think when you're in a band you take on a role within the band, and I think people over the course of years can identify those roles as almost being bigger than just the individual. I don't know. It's kind of hard to talk about.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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This is senior citizen profiling and I will not put up with it one more minute.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them. "If one were to sting me," He thought "I should swell up as big as I am!
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Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by 1960 or so.
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I don't like speed. I would have made a terrible Futurist. Even when I did take drugs, I never liked amphetamines and much preferred the slow taffy-pull of time that you get with opiates.
