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Amy Gerstler Quotes

My work is mostly about longing, human relationships, science and children - and a little bit about ghosts and reincarnation.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: 1956

Topics

Work Science Children Relationships

I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.

Good Faith King Action Think Values

I had low self-esteem.

Jennifer O'Neill

Self-Esteem Low Low Self-Esteem Had

People want me to shut up, but I won't. I believe social change is possible; that's why I'm an activist.

Change People Me Believe Possible

Those of us who preach the Scriptures, along with being nourished by it ourselves, have to figure out along with our congregations how we can incarnate the gospel in our community, or we will preach to a religious ghetto.

Community Ghetto Will Out Preach Us

I'll never be the biggest kind of star; I'll be like Bob Duvall, respected as an actor but a lot of people can't identify the face. I don't have the personality of a big star, or the looks of a Mel Gibson or a Paul Newman, or the style of a George C. Scott.

Style Personality People Face Looks

I don't think there is any kind of magic about what I do. All of the connections are there, somewhere in the subconscious or in the collective unconscious. If I let the elements speak to each other, then these coincidences will happen. And they do happen. They happen all the time.

Time Speak Think Connections Magic

There is this myth, that America is a melting pot, but what happens in assimilation is that we end up deliberately choosing the American things - hot dogs and apple pie - and ignoring the Chinese offerings.

End American America Apple Pie Hot

There have been many socially conscious concept albums. I wanted to make a 'social consciousness' concept album disguised as a country record.

Sturgill Simpson

Country Consciousness Social Been

As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond.

Rufus Wainwright

You Artist Down Much Torn Put

As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

Life Mother Live Music God Child

I've been on shows where they're just setting it up, and they're trying to find the tone of the writing and performance. That's always a really chaotic period on shows.

Writing Performance Trying Find Up

There is a lot of pretty horrific stuff that happens, and I don't usually get those kinds of characters who get to go to those places.

Go Places Pretty Get Stuff Happens

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