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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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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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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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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Humans are complex, and I think in entertainment in general, it's very easy to put people in boxes.
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I think one of the things I was most interested in finding out was how differently we approached our work. And my reality was that we didn't approach it very differently at all, which was funny.
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I've dated men. I've dated women. I don't know why anyone would care.
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I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.
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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.
