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 love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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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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Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.
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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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Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not make his government democratical rather than oligarchical, "Go you," replied the legislator, "and try a democracy in your own house.
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I'm a New Yorker now, and believe me, there's no comparison between the Big Apple and Kalamazoo, no similarity at all. New York City's hectic, always in fast-forward, and Kalamazoo's more laid-back, smaller, slower.
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In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake.
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Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.
