Anna Neagle Quotes
But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.
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When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.
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He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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I love what I do.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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Lack of time and money create really bad green practices.
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.
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Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.
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When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.
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Probably my mother. She was a very compassionate woman, and always kept me on my feet. And I think part of it is just the way you are, the way you're raised. And she had the responsibility for raising me.
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The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.
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On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.
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I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables.
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When I first arrived in America, the very first place I came was California, and I rented a house in Trance, which is about half an hour from Malibu.
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All children are manipulators.
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Usually it's lyric first, but sometimes it's melody. And I carry a hand-held recorder everywhere I go so I can just hum or whistle a melody if one hits me. Sometimes it's both simultaneously - lyric and melody at the same time - those are a little confusing to me, but sometimes it comes in that form. I just feel like I have my own little radio station and sometimes the static clears and something beams in from out there.
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I had centered myself, learning of the existence of an interior motion, a shift in the levels from isolation to solitude to wordlessness to immobility. When Opel occupied that center I became the thing that swirled.
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Solitude. It is way underrated in our world of writing. We stay busy. We act busy. We thrive on busy. The truth is there is a lot of beauty that lives in the solitude. Quiet is not the enemy. Quiet is necessary for brains to not self-destruct.
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But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.
