Anne Michaels Quotes
I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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I have an office full of product from brands trying to be in videos and an inbox full of songs from artists, but at the end of the day if the artist doesn't support the brand or it doesn't make sense for the song, then it will never work. What we do is try to pair them up so that both sides are happy.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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I've been training quite hard.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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We'll drive off the side of that bridge when we come to it, Senator Kennedy.
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I write for myself; I'm trying to keep myself interested in the music. But at the same time, I want to make the songs relatable in a way; I want to keep melodies pretty simple and the lyrics open-ended so that people could maybe relate them to their own life in different ways. Something for everybody to have a piece of.
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Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.
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I found so much fun in the light shows and the multimedia shows of the hippies. That was when I was a student in the 1960s, and I was in New York, so I learned how to deal with writing, recording sound of other people, performance art - because that was a new territory, and I liked everything that was new and provocative. That interested me more than becoming anything specific.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.
