Deena Metzger Quotes
Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves - these are continuous with one another.
Quotes to Explore
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Courtship is like simmering mutton. You cook for hours and hours to taste the soft meat. It doesn't happen in two seconds!
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I got through with my ability to mimic others and make people laugh. I swaggered through life, but, in reality, I lived in fear pretty much every day. I acted like a completely normal person, and I suppose I was good at it. But, inside, it was a very different story.
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What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
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When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.
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People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.
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I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.
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When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.
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My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.
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A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.
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Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.
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I think it's really important to live in the moment.
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He wasn't completely wrong, poor old Gemistus (let Lord Andronicus and the patriarch suspect him if they like), in wanting us, telling us to become pagan once again.
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Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.
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Once in a while I say, 'Go for it' and I eat chocolate.
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Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.
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One of the things I think the next president has to do is to stop fanning people's fears. If we spend all our time feeding the American people fear and conflict and division, then they become fearful and conflicted and divided. And if we feed them hope and we feed them reason and tolerance, then they will become tolerant and reasonable and hopeful.
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Every single morning you wake up with the opportunity to be yourself, or be the idea of someone else. For me it is all about... my favourite mantra is: "You do you. I do me. They do they."
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The greatest competitive advantage is to allow your employees to be part of something. Something bigger than what you're doing.
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Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important.
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Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves - these are continuous with one another.
