Kiersten White Quotes
What a lovely balance. Lend shows whatever he wants the world to see and you see through whatever the world wants to show you.
Quotes to Explore
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important.
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In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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I love Chennai and its people. My mother always tells me, 'You should have been born a South Indian!'
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Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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I like contemporary, bare-boned writing. I don't like having the language that I barely understand get in the way of me interpreting it over to an audience. It's this barrier that I don't want to have to attack.
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Mark Miller is my brother and I love him dearly.
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Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations between man and nature, and to separate natural history from social history becomes extremely problematic.
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WeWork is working to create a world where people make a life and not just a living.
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What a lovely balance. Lend shows whatever he wants the world to see and you see through whatever the world wants to show you.
