Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes
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I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.
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After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if they wanted somebody to care for their kids by teaching them the Bible. I have never attended any seminary school or Bible college in my life.
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I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.
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There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
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Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.
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Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.
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I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.
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The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.
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I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.
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Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.
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The people who run the show in the NBA don't know anything about Islam. I think that may also be why some people are against me personally-because I am a Muslim. It's the same way people can be against you because of the color of your skin. They don't look past these things. But it always depends on the individual.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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I'm one of the culprits who keeps turning stuff around, shaking up original tunes and trying to stand the canon on its ear. But sometimes, you just need to sing the song.
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The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner.
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Heavy booze is a big time vacation, but you come back with a headache.
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This is one of those games you want when you're going out on the road. That's why in the third quarter, I was proud of the guys. ... I brought the guys together and reminded them of how we've let teams get back in games in the third quarter. I just said let's finish this one.
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Summing it Up..."Where's a good place for dinner?" I asked. "There's the Brasserie Lipp on the Avenue St. Germaine," she said, "or La Coupole in Montmartre." "Not La Coupole," I said. "I've been there before. That's the place that's crowded and noisy and smells bad and everybody's rude as hell, isn't it?" "I think you just described France," she said.
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If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with my eyes, and search for them with my clumsy fingers, and be unable to detect them; but let me take a magnet and sweep through it, and how would it draw to itself the almost invisible particles by the mere power of attraction. The unthankful heart, like my finger in the sand, discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day, and as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some Heavenly blessings.
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If the faith of all the mothers could blossom to its full fruition, there would be no unsuccessful men in the land.
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Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously. Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night.
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Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him.
