Brooke Allison Quotes
Reach for the sky, it's not as high as it seems. Just follow your heart go as far as your dreams.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.
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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
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Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.
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I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.
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I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
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There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.
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You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.
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There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
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I want to take a more international direction with my career.
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For the rain it raineth every day.
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To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this: the inability to confront that which is.
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How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want!
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I began photographing around 14; my mother gave me a camera, it's actually the one I still use for creating most of my work. My career has evolved from literally figuring out how to formally structure a photograph, to going through graduate school and trying to formally structure my thoughts. A sort of gradual learning, then unlearning.
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If you want a transcript of tonight's program, get a pen and write down everything I said.
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If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!
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Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.
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Reach for the sky, it's not as high as it seems. Just follow your heart go as far as your dreams.
