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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Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
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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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My parents grew up during the space race, and I think they imagined the future would be us living on moon bases and everyone has rocket shoes.
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An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.
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I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.
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We come from a very mixed family. We're a bunch of different races, my family. So it's very normal for us. I don't know why we're accepted. Are all of us accepted or just me?
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The last thing I wanna do is sit home and watch television.
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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.
