Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes
I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.
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I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
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The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.
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I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
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What is sought can never produce the seeking.
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I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
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America is a meritocracy.
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As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?
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I don't have family in this business. I had two parents that loved me, that worked 24-7, and this is what instilled hard work in me. So you hear the stories about my upbringing, my religion.
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If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.
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We know nothing about Africa, although our roots are there in terms of our forbearers. But I mean as far as the average Negro today, he knows nothing about Africa. And I think he's got to face the fact that he is an American, his culture is basically American, and one becomes adjusted to this when he realizes what, what he is.
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Nothing surprises me when it comes to people in the entertainment business.
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Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.
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I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.
