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Naomi Shihab Nye

"A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell."

-- Naomi Shihab Nye

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“I mean I feel like we've shot all these different movies. Like the first 2 weeks of shooting was all Steve Stills apartment and band rehearsal, you know? And so it was like this tiny little group of people and small set comparatively and it just looked like a Toronto apartment. And then we sort of kept ramping up further and further until now we're here in this giant like craziest set I've ever seen with LCD crazy lights that go....you know?”
“And he says I have lousy timing”
“Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.”

Source : "Better than Amis?" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2003.
“Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.”
“When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross.”
“One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.”
“I didn't play video games because my parents didn't allow it. That was banned from my childhood experience.”
“Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin 'helping' them. Such a world does not exist â€” never has.”

Source : "Why Women’s History Month" by Ruth Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2014.

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