Delia Sherman Quotes
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My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.
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A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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When you start rhyming, it's hard to find things that rhyme with Yauch, Horovitz and Diamond.
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When I write I consider it a rhyme. In the studio I consider it laying down vocals. Onstage, I'm entertaining; I don't even think about it.
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And I'd marry you, Harry. Because it rhymes.
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History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.
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Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents.
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As soon as you start to think of that thing that you want to convey or say, you can always just say it much better than you can actually rhyme it or stuff it into a song. It's very, very difficult to just kind of get your point across without going the back way. And you have to be good at that, to not think about things so hard. Let the pen take over, so that it's somebody else's job to dissect the lyrics and tell you what you're all about.
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If skills sold truth be told I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli Truthfully I want to rhyme like Common Sense (But I did five Mil) I ain't been rhyming like Common since.
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One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take us before my graduate studies in Canada and finding that the stream I had gone swimming in wasn't there. The forest had been converted into an apple orchard with World Bank financing. The entire place, literally, had changed.
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Keep each person separate in your heart. Don't have two sex patterns going at the same time. And don't ever join a conversation about something you know nothing about.
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If you hold on to certain things that are comfortable and maybe a bad pattern for you psychologically, then you rob yourself of the experience of the next thing that happens when you do start to let go. It's only by trusting that, and by the leaps of faith, that you remember that's true.
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Energy moves in waves.
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It was apples and oranges. We wanted to give both films a leg up.
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Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed.
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No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.
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There's small choice in rotten apples.
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Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye.
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They too, are created by the same loving hand of God which Created us...It is our duty to Protect Them and to promote their well-being.
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She looks at me. She does. She.
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The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.
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I'm a warrior if you try to hurt my family. And anybody I see getting it in the neck out there, I'm right there to protect them. I'm a big, strong guy who knows what he's doing. I've stopped a lot of things in the street, stopped a lot of people from getting hurt.
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I can't rhyme for little green apples. What I can do is scan and make patterns.
