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

• It's something nice to be number one, of course, but there are much more expectations.

  

  Angelique Kerber
  • Nice

• God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Light
  • Desire

• I have a huge interest in Japan, which is well known, including its history and culture, and so it will be very interesting for me to see and learn more about Japan.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Culture
  • Interesting
  • Interest

• Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young; but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Thinking
  • Waiting
  • Individual

• One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.

  

  Joseph Smith, Jr.
  • Truth
  • Mormonism
  • Come From

• 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