Antonya Nelson Quotes
The most enduring battle is between head and heart; what would be efficient and logical is nearly always trumped by what is messy and illogical.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.
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I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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It takes heart to be in political life.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I'm a little malicioso. There's no way of hiding that side.
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In my heart, I'm 100% real. You can't pull out nothing in my past that can say I'm not 100% real.
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I was going to fight for what I wanted first, and that was being in L.A. and being a Laker. L.A. was the first place that came to my mind. That's where my heart was at.
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The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.
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While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.
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When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.
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I don't have any formula. I just work with my heart, putting in a lot of hard work.
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I do think faith is important when it introduces positivity into your life and you see it with love in your heart because there's so many people who unfortunately use faith for detrimental things or to justify detrimental actions.
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Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul, but a lot of physical energy into it.
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My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.
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I've never had my heart broken. It's a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I don't think it says anything good about me at all.
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I do not take up a responsibility unless I am sure of putting my heart and soul into it.
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A person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to express his attitude toward the reality surrounding him, be it a landscape or a state; to capture his state of mind at a given instant; to leave - as he thinks at that moment - a trace on the earth.
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The clock of doom had struck as fated;the poet, without a sound,let fall his pistol on the ground.
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Be gentle with him, Mercy. He's got a heart as big as Texas— he'll die for you without blinking. But he doesn't expect anyone to do the same for him.
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The most enduring battle is between head and heart; what would be efficient and logical is nearly always trumped by what is messy and illogical.
