Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes
Forget: Refuse to dwell; let go and loosen one's hold, particularly on memory. To forget is an active - not passive - endeavor.
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I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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Of course, when strangers see me, they're star-struck because of who I am, but my friends take me as a friend because I'm their friend - not because I'm a movie star.
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I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
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My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
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I don't look for anybody to pay for health care for me and my family. That's my responsibility.
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My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial resources may be few, but our spirits are high, receptive, and excited, and that seems to me to be the most important thing right now.
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I think that with Donald Trump, the United States will have a president who is not ideologically limited; that is, he is an open person, much more interested in success, efficiency, and results than political theories.
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Ferran Adria making hamburgers... some thought it was crazy. But getting them perfect was a challenge. Plus I'm fascinated by all aspects of food.
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Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.
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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
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All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.
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I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions.
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You're encouraged to do the same kind of movies. But I would like to keep doing different things.
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I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.
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I'd rather lose large than win slightly. I think life is an oil painting, not a watercolor.
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Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
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Forget: Refuse to dwell; let go and loosen one's hold, particularly on memory. To forget is an active - not passive - endeavor.
