Lillian Smith Quotes
The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.
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Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.
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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
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We're a competitive family - we compete in everything we do: playing cards; if we're walking down the street, we want to be the first one down the block.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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Many are called but few get up.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?
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I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
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I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.
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If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.
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'Hurt Village' is based on a real housing project in Memphis, about three minutes away from the Lorraine Hotel where Dr. King was assassinated, so in my work I'm focusing on a very specific area in Memphis. I see 'Hurt Village' as a natural extension of 'The Mountaintop.'
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Whether or not I tour forever, I'm not sure. I would love to spend more time living in harmony with nature rather than flying all over the world and contributing to global warming, you know what I mean?
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The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.
