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.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • World
  • Mean
  • Style

• 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.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Parents
  • Play
  • Player

• 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.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Movie
  • Friend
  • Star

• 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.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Great
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• 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.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • School
  • High
  • Dream

• Ignoring facts does not make them go away.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Facts
  • Away
  • Ignoring

• Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Book
  • Always
  • Write

• I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Facts
  • Try
  • Flavor

• I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Writing
  • Never
  • Door

• My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Breakfast
  • Weekend
  • Favorite

• I don't look for anybody to pay for health care for me and my family. That's my responsibility.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Family
  • Health
  • Responsibility

• 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.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Community
  • Right
  • Aim

• 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.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Think
  • Success
  • Political

• 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.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Food
  • Perfect
  • Crazy

• Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Work
  • Crazy
  • Tough

• 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.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Live
  • Black
  • Ignorance

• All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Business
  • You
  • Sort

• The 1970s were so wonderful for women writers. There were all these women, and they were seen as doing the most interesting, innovative and exciting stuff in science fiction. I was inspired by that.

  

  Lisa Tuttle
  • Women
  • Science
  • Interesting

• I don't want to be treated like I came from another planet or something or was somehow born with some weird birthright or super power. I don't view myself that way. I am a normal guy, picking up the crap from the dog and scraping the BBQ and having a beer and fixing the shed out back.

  

  Chris Hadfield
  • Up
  • Power
  • Guy

• I say you are a coward and you are; I think you hunt only to reassure yourself that you are not what you are: the weakest thing to ever walk the Earth. He will come for me and then we will be gone, and you will be helpless for all your hunting, because Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.

  

  William Goldman
  • Thinking
  • Earth
  • Break

• The state is suffering from two opposite vices, avarice and luxury; two plagues which, in the past, have been the ruin of every great empire.

  

  Livy
  • Great
  • Past
  • Suffering

• The time to fix our broken immigration system is now... We need stronger enforcement on the border and at the workplace... But for reform to work, we also must respond to what pulls people to America... Where we can reunite families, we should. Where we can bring in more foreign-born workers with the skills our economy needs, we should.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Forget: Refuse to dwell; let go and loosen one's hold, particularly on memory. To forget is an active - not passive - endeavor.

  

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes