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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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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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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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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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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Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters or Stratford as one of the places. Shakespeare is in one sense present at every moment in every play.
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I am a Florida guy. I don't do cold.
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If you can laugh with somebody and relate to somebody, it becomes harder to dehumanize them. I think that most of what we are constantly bombarded with in terms of media leads you to a creation of 'the Other' and a dehumanization of 'the Other,' and it's very much an us-versus-them conversation.
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A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.
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You always have a chance when your special teams are on the job, especially on the road, and your goalie is giving you big saves.
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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.
