Margot Kidder Quotes
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Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.
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Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.
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I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.
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I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.
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If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
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I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
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Eventually, Nixon ran a very centrist presidency, not a Goldwater conservative presidency.
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I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!
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In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
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My dad had premature gray. I was always the one with the most energy, the one who continued to practice longer. I ran up and down the stairs of different stadiums. I didn't feel the need to cover up the fact that I was losing my hair or it was graying. When you're on a team, age is only a factor when you're talking in the locker room.
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You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
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Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true.
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I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
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My tenure at 'The Daily Show' started during the decade after September 11, and fear of Muslims was at an all-time high. Politicians and the media seemed to dial the fright, mistrust, and animosity up to a fever pitch to gain votes and ratings.
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For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!'
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He sat down next door in the seat she had left and watched the grim suburbs of Philadelphia showing their sores, like beggars, to the rich train.
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I am not sure that I know enough about the pre-history of 9/11 to agree or disagree. But I did think at the time that the George W. Bush administration took a number of cues from the Israeli government, not only by drawing on and intensifying anti-Arab racism, but by insisting that the attack on US government and financial buildings was an attack on "democracy" and by invoking "security at all costs" to wage war without a clear focus (why the Taliban?), and by suspending both constitutional rights and the regular protocol for congressional approval for declaring war.
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speaking with, uh, about the vocal choreography, one of the first groups that I worked with was a group called the Cadillacs, which was uh, an exceptionally talented group. They all moved well and they sort of established Cholly Atkins's style. In other words they basically put me on the map, and everybody would look at them and see their choreography and they wanted to know who did it, so they would tell them.
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The artist is always searching for the meaning of life, his own and that of mankind, searching for truth. A system of uncertainty has entered our daily life. The pressures of mechanization and uniformity to which it is subject call for protest and the artist has only one means of expressing this, by music.
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I just pick it up and throw it. He hit it. They scored. We didn't. That's it. It's over. It's history. OK?.
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My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.
