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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In acting, every day is different, and I guess it appeals to my storytelling imagination. But I've been very fortunate to get the chance to do what I want to do and earn a living from it to pay the mortgage.
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What a wonderful faculty is memory! - the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds - this faithful witness against us for good or evil.
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I would like to say when I turn the project over to the label that I have been successful. And that's truly the way I feel. But, in addition to the self-pride in 'making' a good album, to be honest, I'd love to have a hit record.
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If you are just using the service to look at Web sites and download e-mail, then a DSL line may be cheaper. It is when you have more data going out that wireless can make a difference.
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But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.
