Elizabeth Flock Quotes
When American poet Alice Notley was very young, she used to sit in front of the radio and just listen. When she got older, she began to hear words and songs in her head everywhere she went - songs she loved, like 'Begin the Beguine' by Cole Porter, and her own words that sometimes tumbled out into poems.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.
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And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
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I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.
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Do you. Wear what you want to wear. Be an individual. Be unique and live your best life.
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No matter how committed a marriage, there will always be other people - those we have chemistry with and those we don't, those we are attracted to, and those who shop for functional outdoors wear. The sooner a couple can accept the existence of the former and exchange a few basic reassurances concerning them, the easier life gets.
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This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.
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I think technology is such that we can reach new heights but we need some of the basics of the pre-technological age. It's counter-productive to be able to type a hundred words a minute but not know what the words mean.
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I only know two to three people that I grew up with in advertising in the 1960s who are married to the same women.
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When American poet Alice Notley was very young, she used to sit in front of the radio and just listen. When she got older, she began to hear words and songs in her head everywhere she went - songs she loved, like 'Begin the Beguine' by Cole Porter, and her own words that sometimes tumbled out into poems.
