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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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 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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And all for love, and nothing for reward.
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The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.
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If you get beyond the political rhetoric and assembled a group to solve Social Security it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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My hobbies are random. One week I want to exercise, one week I just want to eat all day. One week I'm going out every night and the next week I'm totally locked in my house, not going anywhere. I'm a little bit all over the place, socially. I don't have another passion or hobby - it's really music. I'm in the studio constantly.
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Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your freedom until you once more believe in your own concept of the 'deity.'
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It is, of course, a luxury to create art and, on top of this, to insist on expressing one's own artistic opinion. Nothing is more luxurious than this. It is a game and a good game, at least for me; one of the few games which make life, difficult and depressing as it is sometimes, a little more interesting.
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Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim.
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I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.
