Kathleen Raine Quotes
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Being flown to the U.S. to meet Sofia Coppola is really exciting. I was freaking out. I'm a little nervous, as I don't want to muck it up I want to do my best.
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It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.
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I like pushing boundaries.
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I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?
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Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.
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I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.
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When I don't know what to wear, I wear black lace.
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Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.
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Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.
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Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.
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The needs of the business sector must be understood.
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I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors. TiVo! I was out there before TiVo came out, man.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all.
