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Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves - these are continuous with one another.

Deena Metzger

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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!

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • You
  • Taste
  • Meat

• 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.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Mind
  • True
  • Lost

• When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.

  

  Kate Williams
  • History
  • Think
  • Want

• I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Long
  • Me
  • Friend

• 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.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Great
  • May
  • Dog

• I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Up
  • Home
  • Reading

• 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.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Up
  • Book
  • Me

• 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.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Enough
  • Within
  • Dinosaurs

• I think it's really important to live in the moment.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Important
  • Live
  • Moment

• 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.

  

  C.P. Cavafy
  • Poor
  • Lord
  • Pagan

• Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • True
  • Goal
  • Key

• Once in a while I say, 'Go for it' and I eat chocolate.

  

  Claudia Schiffer
  • Chocolate

• No one would starve in independent India. Its grain would not be exported. Cloth would not be imported by it. Its leaders would not use a foreign language and finding justice in it would be neither costly nor difficult.

  

  Vallabhbhai Patel
  • Justice
  • Independent
  • Motivational

• Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that's what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core.

  

  Rajneesh
  • God
  • Creating
  • Escape

• A green, Fifa Coins| Fifa Coins| Fifa Coins| Fifa Coins| Fifa Coins| replica watches|renewable energy economy isn't some pie-in-the-sky, far-off future - it is now. It is creating jobs - now. It is providing cheap alternatives to $140-per-barrel oil - now. And it can create millions of additional jobs, an entire new industry, if we act - now.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Future
  • Energy
  • Sky

• Immediately upon entering the weighing-in zone, I sensed an oppressive tension in the air, the lightweights staring and glaring at each other, snarling like lean, frenzied dogs. Extreme hunger has a way of creating these emotions in even the most mil-mannered people.

  

  Brad Alan Lewis
  • Emotions
  • Creating
  • Dogs

• The Freedom which Christianity gives, is a Freedom from the Bondage of Sin and Satan, and from the Domination of Men's Lusts and Passions and inordinate Desires; but as to their outward Condition, whatever that was before, whether bond or free, their being baptised, and becoming Christians, makes no manner of Change in it.

  

  Edmund Gibson
  • Freedom
  • Change
  • Sin

• Phone are wonderful instruments, but I wouldn't want our daughter to marry one.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Daughter
  • Humorous

• Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves - these are continuous with one another.

  

  Deena Metzger
  • Creating
  • Ourselves
  • Another