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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Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.
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I moved to New York for school right after I turned 18, but I started getting into trouble - so I went home to L.A. to regroup.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
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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.
