Deena Metzger Quotes
Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t like. Wallow in it. Write the opposite of what you always write, think, speak. Do everything against the grain!
Quotes to Explore
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I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.
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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
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Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind.
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Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.
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By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
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The Church did the most when the Church was the least like the world.
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The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
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We all share the wound of fragmentation. And we can all share in the cure of unification. Healing is the unification of all our forces -- the powers of being, feeling, knowing and seeing.
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Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society.
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...once you fell in love with her, you loved her until the day you died.
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They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.
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There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.
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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
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The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love.
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One of the things I feel very strong about is the achievement of the Band really being a complete band.
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I'm a really athletic person - I'm not that coordinated, but I'm really athletic, so I would play a superhero doing my own stunts in a heartbeat. But hopefully not taking swings at people. That's not a good idea for me.
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Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.
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When I directed my first short – 'American Virgin' – I had no idea if I could actually do it. Like, I might just get onto set, have everyone look at me and just completely freeze and have no idea what to do. But pretty much the opposite of that happened. I was like a fish diving into the sea.
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I did indulge myself in a lot of history reading, to inform myself as to who the real woman was. As far as other actresses’ portrayals, though, I tried to stay clear. It muddles your process, I find.
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Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t like. Wallow in it. Write the opposite of what you always write, think, speak. Do everything against the grain!
