Annie Dillard Quotes
As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.
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Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
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When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.
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Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
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Fingir é conhecer-se.
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Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.
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That's how I make work. Along the way, I take notes, I read about history and popular culture. Sometimes I act out things in the studio. I go back to my mother's hair salon so I can hear three voices going all at once. I pull inspiration from everything.
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We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.
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I combine magic and science to create illusions. I work with new media and interactive technologies, things like artificial intelligence or computer vision, and integrate them in my magic.
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As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
