Lucille Clifton Quotes
In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'
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In Denmark, we're making 20 films a year. If I'm showing up in even two of those, people will get tired of me really fast.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.
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Power and speed be hands and feet.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.
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So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.
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It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.
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Even from a really young age I was a huge movie buff - five, six, seven, eight. Just loved movies, but in a more in-depth way than most kids that loved movies at that time. I'd find a filmmaker or something and want to see all his movies.
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Sometimes I think I should just buy a blow-up party doll. Same level of intelligence, plastic, and full of air. The problem is, I'd probably fall in love.
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One way to make tough decisions is to take incremental steps that don't commit you to anything yet.
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In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.
