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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I never look at any pictures of myself on the red carpet. I can't do that.
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The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances.
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I will absolutely say that Johnny Ramone was a huge influence on me. I'm a giant Ramones fan.
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I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.
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This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.
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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.
