Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes
But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.
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I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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Homosexuals are not welcome in the Gambia.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.
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The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
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I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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I ain't giving up on myself, so if you give up on me, I ain't got nothing else to say for you.
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There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.
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...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.
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Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.
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But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.
