Kevin Young Quotes
That sense of mystery, but also of revelation, is what I turn to poems for. They're able to embody experience. We need more and more of that.
Kevin Young
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I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.
Cameron Diaz
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The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.
Samantha Power
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Sometimes, you're going 24 hours a day, seven days a week for a few months, and then you come home, and you wonder what you're doing with your life and why. At least, that's the experience I've had.
Verite
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I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'
Patricia MacLachlan
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I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.
Laura Dern
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Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.
Laura Marling
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I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.
Dawn French
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The schizophrenic may indeed be mad. He is mad. He is not ill. I have been told by people who have been through the mad experience how what was then revealed to them was veritable manna from Heaven. The person's whole life may be changed, but it is difficult not to doubt the validity of such vision. Also, not everyone comes back to us again.
R. D. Laing
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Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.
Barbara Corcoran
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Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.
Donald Johanson
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Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.
David Morrissey
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That sense of mystery, but also of revelation, is what I turn to poems for. They're able to embody experience. We need more and more of that.
Kevin Young