Danzy Senna Quotes
I didn't read about it for school. It was just for myself. I was interested in cults in general but Jonestown was the most interesting of all the cults I studied.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?
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At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
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I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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This world's a bubble.
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I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.
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Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!
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Of course, there are some things you keep personal and private because you're a human being. But on the other side of it, I ain't got time to be hiding nothing and all that. It is what it is.
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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
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I don't know about living on an automatic pilot, but I've had times where I've decided to just test myself and my mettle, and for no good reason other than it's what life is. Even before I was acting, I had, like, one day in high school I decided to just show them my pajamas, just for no good reason.
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When we get a chance to take part in elections, I am ready to fight for leading positions, including in the presidential vote.
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I think in general, doing The X-Factor with the Steve Aoki song was the most difficult time, but also weirdly the most rewarding as well. I definitely felt like I couldn't do it, and then I definitely felt the support from everyone around me, the friends and family but also the fans and people outside of that.
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I didn't read about it for school. It was just for myself. I was interested in cults in general but Jonestown was the most interesting of all the cults I studied.
