Claudia Rankine Quotes
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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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Everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. We completed each other.
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Normally, I don't like explaining songs. I don't want to kill anyone's interpretation or the story they want to make for themselves.
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You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.
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If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
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It's not very often that I like new bands.
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Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.
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I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.
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As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.
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The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
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Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
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I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.
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I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
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Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.
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I like to stay home with my family. But travel is good in a way. It makes you redefine each other each time you see each other. Also, it helps that I think my wife is the hottest woman in the world.
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It really is a blessing when two people who are so full of dignity and kindness and really live to make the world a better place get together.
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There are apparently three factors that lead to longevity: heredity, habits, and what your wife will let you get away with.
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There neither exists nor can exist any work more thoroughly dignified - more supremely noble than this very poem - this poem per se - this poem which is a poem and nothing more - this poem written solely for the poem's sake.
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I try really hard not to be attached to success.
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No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.
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The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous death occurring by 'accident' in the midst of prosperity would not suffice for it. It is, in fact, essentially a tale of suffering and calamity conducting to death.
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I met Donald Barthelme when I was 30, and it's fair to say that before that moment, I was pre-modern, and after I met him, I was nudged rather forcefully towards this other end of the spectrum.
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I don't write every day. I write when I want to write.
