"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."

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Source : Claudia Rankine (2014). “Citizen: An American Lyric”, p.65, Macmillan

Claudia Rankine

#Past Quotes #Tomorrow Quotes #Blunt Quotes

“I believe in hiring people to do their jobs.I want to hire an editor.They say you make a movie three times: when you write it, when you direct it, and when you edit it. So I have three shots to get it right!”
“The tongue is a powerful tool. And the words we say are never forgotten. Never.”
“Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.”
“If you can't beat them (Packers), You might as well join them”
“Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales.”
“One does odd things. You see, when one's young one doesn't feel part of it yet, the human condition; one does things because they are not â€œfor goodâ€; one thinks everything is a rehearsal - to be repeated ad lib, to be put right when the curtain goes up in earnest. One day you know that the curtain was up all the time. That was the performance.”
“I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera.”
“It ain't fair that we have all the rough breaks!”

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