Lisel Mueller Quotes
Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.
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I write in a small office at home.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
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I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes history!' And 'She's the champion!'
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We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.
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My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.
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I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what they once were in terms of advertisement and book tours.
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To be an entertainer, you gotta be a little gutsy, a little egotistical, so you have to pull back sometimes when people say, 'Well, he's stuck-up.' 'Stuck-up' is only another word for self-conscious.
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When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been since I was barely a teenager, that since it didn't look like the poetry was going where I wanted, I might try writing a science fiction story. I did, and the first story I ever wrote was 'The Great American Economy.'
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By divine design, men and women are intended to progress together toward perfection and a fulness of glory. Because of their distinctive temperaments and capacities, males and females each bring to a marriage relationship unique perspectives and experiences.
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In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.
