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Alissa Nutting

"I think what tends to embarrass me most is how much I struggle at the little things that seem to come so easily to most people, mainly involving routine and self-care. It's hard for me to do things like cook a meal, not be in a constant apocalyptically late rush everywhere I go, to put something back when I'm finished with it. I seem to be hardwired for chaos and disorganization."

Source : "A Teachable Moment". Interview with John Lee, logger.believermag.com. August 6, 2013.

Alissa Nutting

#Struggle Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes

“And [now] I think Iâ€™ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows Iâ€™ve hung bird feeders â€¦ for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.”
“Humility is not weakness; it is the epitome of strength. Humility moves a person away from human, personal weakness and limitation into divine expression, strength, and expansion.”
“A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.”
“I do not criticize religion as such, but I criticize the concept and the definition of "religion" - as I said in Genealogies.”

Source : "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.jadaliyya.com. February 3, 2015.
“Is it more important to make sure that you have another Clinton or a woman in the White House than it is to have somebody who is a morally sound character and judgment?”
“A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.”
“I think emotion is just anything that is emotional, you know, people can feel with music. Music is already so emotional, like the strings, the chords, and the notes and the melodies and stuff. And then you throw on a topic that everyone can relate to. That's gonna be real music.”
“There arent any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So youre just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is.”

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