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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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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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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I was on as many as seven medications at one time, doctors didn't know what to do with me.
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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It is very likely that there are many, many planets carrying life, even intelligent life, thoughout the universe, because there are so many stars. By sheer chance, even if those chances are small, a great many life forms and a great many intelligences may exist.
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People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.
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I don't like to get beat in anything!
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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.
