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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Don't let people tell you that you can't do something.
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I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.
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I get irritated with the world. I get irritated with politicians. I get very irritated with governments and with corporations, but in terms of imagination - my imagination is always fertile. I'm either thinking of my own things or constantly engaged by the things that other people do.
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Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.
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For where else, if not in the home, can we let our imagination wander?
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But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.
