Marilyn Nelson Quotes
Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.
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I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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I am very concerned about nutrition and always try to be careful about what I eat.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.
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My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.
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Moisturizing every night is important. When you're 50 or 60, it's going to show if you don't take care of it. You have to prepare when you're young, so you still have that healthy, glowing skin when you're 60 or 70.
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It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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I was a horrible athlete.
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
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I believe in my music.
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Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.
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I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.
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The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.
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The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.
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I'd be a terrible journalist. I wouldn't want to pry; I just don't have that nature.
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No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
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Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.
