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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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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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'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 read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years.
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People forget that there are villages and communities that are still speaking French all over Canada. I went to a bar and spoke with some French people there, and they were saying: 'I went to English school, but at home it was always French, and that's going to be the way it is for my kids.' It's important for them to keep that language alive.
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It's daunting, taking on the task of representing the gay community, because there are so many different facets and different schools of thought and behavior.
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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.
