Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes
When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
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I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.
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The very best testament to the validity of the Warren Commission's findings is that after an unrelenting, close to forty-five-year effort, the Commission's fiercest critics have not been able to produce any new credible evidence that would in any way justify a different conclusion.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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I am endlessly inspired by both the tenderness that can exist between two people and the excitement of falling in love. I'm very fortunate that I've been able to explore that in novels, a television show, some early development film projects, and essays about my own life.
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The impure men and women who surrounded me (and particularly the men), did not arouse any of my real feelings; while the natural feeling for life possessed by animals set in vibration everything good in me. from the front of World War 1..
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Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.
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Those who have a why to live for can bear almost any how. The necessary premise is that a person is somehow more than his or her "characteristics," all the emotions, strivings, tastes, and constructions which it pleases us to call "My Life." We have grounds to hope that a Life is something more than a cloud of particles, mere facticity. Go through what is comprehensible and you conclude that only the incomprehensible gives any light.
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When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them.
