Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes
But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.
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I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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It always starts with a script. I like to have plenty of time to read something, and I always like to read a paper copy. I hate reading it on email. I sit down with a script, and want to see how it hits me. It's an instinctive process.
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I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
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I always like summer best
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Ask me to define my love for you and I’ll say it’s captured in every beautiful memory of our past, detailed out in vivid visions of our dreams and future plans, but most of all it’s right now, in the moment where everything I’ve ever wanted in my life is standing right in front of me.
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I'm someone who speaks my mind, so it was important to me that my publisher value originality and creative expression.
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But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.
