Anne Waldman Quotes

I get worked up over an 'idea' or the ethos of an idea. I follow dreams, take notes on travels, and engage in research often - if I need names, details, facts that enhance the project.

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• The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
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• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

  Malorie Blackman
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  • You

• People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
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  • Challenges

• I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

  

  Barry Hannah
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  • Freedom
  • Silence

• I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
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• Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.

  

  Vince Lombardi
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• Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.

  

  Safak Pavey
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  • Women
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• Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.

  

  Queen Latifah
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  • Best
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• I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
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  • Believe

• I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
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• If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?

  

  Randy Quaid
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• Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.

  

  Halima Aden
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• I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.

  

  Lake Bell
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• You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
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• It's actually very important to put a little foundation up into your hairline, or else it looks like your face is not yours - like someone just Photoshopped it on!

  

  Barbara Palvin
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  • Face

• I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

  

  Rachel Roy
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• I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and '60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got me in to KISS and whatnot, so I guess that's where I got my first taste for music.

  

  Avicii
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  • Music
  • Father

• I am pretty much as you see me. I don't have deep, dark depths and go home in despair.

  

  Deirdre O'Kane
  • Home
  • Pretty
  • Dark

• If you're androgynous, that's what you look like.

  

  Katherine Moennig

• I am a stage actor. I do mostly improv comedy. The only national television stuff is 'Archer' and' Frisky Dingo.'

  

  Amber Nash
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  • Archer

• I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food.

  

  China Machado
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• I get worked up over an 'idea' or the ethos of an idea. I follow dreams, take notes on travels, and engage in research often - if I need names, details, facts that enhance the project.

  

  Anne Waldman
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