Claudia Rankine Quotes
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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 only live in the world of animal protection. I speak only of that. I think only of that. I am obsessed.
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When you are sad or in pain or sick or you witness any cremation then you actually learn the many truths of life.
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I have a lot of nightmares.
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At 16, I was more resilient and easygoing than I am now.
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In a very literal way, of course, Shakespeare did change the course of history: when it didn't fit the plot he had in mind, he simply rewrote it. His English histories play fast and loose with chronology and fact to achieve the desired dramatic effect, re-ordering history even as it was then understood.
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I don't write every day. I write when I want to write.
