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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I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.
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Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason.
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Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? Good night!
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When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'
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I am happy to be patient zero. It is for the world, for the sick children and sick old people. My life has been good. I understand the risks but I research how people die and I am happy to say that today I do not know how I will die now. Tomorrow or in the long future I was up for a change.
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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.