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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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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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've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.
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What's more important to 'SNL': comedy or buzz? To the writers, players and guest hosts, it's probably the former; to Lorne Michaels and the suits at NBC, it's ultimately probably the latter.
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I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.
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The European Union has decades of experience in overcoming crises and has always emerged stronger after.
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It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
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I know plenty of people who do, who get their holidays paid for and in return have their photographs taken on the beach, but not me.
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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
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I think of film when I paint. Even the luminosity that I always keep working for is really about film. But my idea is not to paint paintings that will decorate somebody's house.
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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.
