"America is still a frontier country of wide open spaces. Our closeness to nature is one reason why our problem is not repression but regression; our notorious violence is the constant eruption of primi-tiveness, of anarchic individualism."

-- Camille Paglia

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“I'm a big believer in pushing yourself outside your comfort zone and stretching yourself artistically, but not at the expense of foolishness.”

Source : "Dove Award winning singer/songwriter Nichole Nordeman talks about life away from full-time music and writing songs for 'The Story'". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.
“My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.”
“There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.”
“Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.”
“That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.”
“I was often the only white girl in the Indian dance class. That felt funny, but doing Indian dance was great.”
“When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.”

Source : Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.320, Routledge
“People often ask me how I developed my vocal sound, and the answer usually disappoints them: Its just the way I sound when I sing.”

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