Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes
Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags, and crazy people.
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
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I think there are plenty of Libertarians that are socially conservative.
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One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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I'm an emotional guy.
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Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.
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I just want to be at peace with myself, personally and professionally. I want to lead my life the way I want to without having to worry about what the other person may be thinking. Professionally again, I would like to be able to just do films that I want to without having to explain my reasons to my friends, family and fans.
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I don't think my spirituality has affected my character. I feel like my character is much more cynical about his beliefs, and I think I have to kind of drop what I believe in order to play him.
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Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags, and crazy people.
