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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When I don't know what to wear, I wear black lace.
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We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.
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On the roads, it is one of those 'might is right' situations. If I see cars coming, I duck out of the way.
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If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.
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America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.
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If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
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Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all.
