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Hortense Calisher
"In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts."
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Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “On Keeping Women: A Novel”, p.264, Open Road Media
Hortense Calisher
#Family Quotes
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#Intimacy Quotes
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“Cause I'm a redneck woman.”
Source : Song: Red Neck Woman
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“I believe every single one of us has a choice in life and that we can all choose to live out whatever our exceptional minds dream up.”
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“The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way to set aside smaller differences in service of a greater purpose.”
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“The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.”
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“We believe that worship is far more than prayer and preaching and gospel performance. The supreme act of worship is to keep the commandments, to follow in the footsteps of the Son of God, to do ever those things that please Him. It is one thing to give lip service to the Lord; it is quite another to respect and honor His will by following the example He has set for us.”
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“An innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece and it secured the Ashes for England [on Pietersen's Ashes winning innings, 2005”
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“The mind of the people is like mud, from which arises strange and beautiful things.”
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“I think fashion is probably one of the most accessible and immediate forms of visual culture. In 1978, when I realized that I wanted to work on fashion, I had gone to Yale to get my Ph.D. in European cultural history. I suddenly realized fashion's part of culture, and I can do fashion history. All my professors thought this was a really bad idea, that fashion was frivolous and unimportant. And, increasingly over time, people have recognized that it provides such a mirror to the way we think, our values and attitudes.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
