"I learned to understand the distance a character can be from yourself and how important rehearsal can be to creating a person that feels like a person that isn't you."

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Morgan Saylor

#Distance Quotes #Character Quotes #Creating Quotes

“I don't want to be a millionaire; just live like one.”
“Weâ€™ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history â€“ that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.”
“Every animal has its own intelligence and sensitivities. They're all lovely, worthwhile, and deserving of our respect.”
“I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy”
“I believe in God. Maybe not the Catholic God or even the Christian one because I have a hard time seeing any God as elitist. I also have a hard time believing that anything that created rain forests and oceans and an infinite universe would, in the same process, create something as unnatural as humanity in its own image. I believe in God, but not as a he or she or an it, but as something that defines my ability to conceptualize within the rather paltry frames of reference I have on hand.”
“I've never thought of my poems as violent. Violence, to me, has so much negativity attached to it - maybe that's my trouble with the word. But ferocious - indeed, I'll take it. And yes, poetry does need a bit of ferocity. Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity - the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.”
“In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.”
“Hillary Clinton doesn't connect with people.”

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