Kelly Wearstler Quotes
Everything I commission - whether it is for me or for a client's home or for a hotel or office - is absolutely unique to that job. I have everything made, or I find vintage and antique pieces at markets and auctions.
Quotes to Explore
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It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.
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How lucky am I?
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
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My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still find myself outside of it. My mother, on the other hand, not only accepted that she would always be an outsider in this country but also believed it to be a finer fate and home than any other she could have had.
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I remember Uncle Boysie telling me that Canada was so safe the policemen wore nice red outfits and rode on horses but according to Roy the country was like Gotham City with crooks around every corner… I pictured them as shady Frank Miller characters with bulging muscles and machine guns poking out from trench coats but the photograph from the papers was of a group of boys my age. They kind of resembled some of my friends from Mayaro too.
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Everything I commission - whether it is for me or for a client's home or for a hotel or office - is absolutely unique to that job. I have everything made, or I find vintage and antique pieces at markets and auctions.
