Annie Dillard Quotes
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
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Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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The book that first made me want to be a writer is Flannery O'Connor's short story collection 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find.'
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When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.
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I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.
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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
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I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.
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It's interesting, because as a musician, I don't feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts.
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.
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And we did so based on the belief that while these transitions will be hard and take time, societies based upon democracy and openness and the dignity of the individual will ultimately be more stable, more prosperous, and more peaceful.
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It's a shame that I haven't done an exhibition in India till now. But I am working on one in Delhi for January 2005. If things go well, there will be another in Mumbai too.
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I was conscious of my father's fame from the time I was 6.
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I had started to wonder if maybe my life wouldn't always hold so much pain if I could just find the courage to let it go.
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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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I think I live in this mythical world where doing the parts I do is not going to hurt me, and telling people my age is not going to hurt me. And it actually does. It's a bit sick-making but, you know, I can't change who I am.
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All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
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She had not had a question like that in her mind before. It had made her feel lonely. She wanted to be alone, but not lonely. That was very different; that was something that ached and hurt dreadfully right inside one. It was what one dreaded most. It was what made one go to so many parties; and lately even the parties had seemed once or twice not to be a perfectly certain protection. Was it possible that loneliness had nothing to do with circumstances, but only with the way one met them? Perhaps, she had thought, she had better go to bed. She couldn’t be very well.
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The surest sign of age is loneliness.
