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Joy Harjo Quotes

Someone accompanies every soul from the other side when it enters this place. Usually it is an ancestor with whom that child shares traits and gifts.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: May 9, 1951

Topics

Soul Child Someone Place Side Gifts

You should have seen me in my Catholic school girl skirt with my knees knocking together.

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

Girl Together School Me You Seen

'War and Peace' is about relationships: family relationships, loving relationships, relationships at war... it's a really young story as well.

Family Peace War Story Loving Young

Although I adore the Italian High Renaissance, I'd rather look at Mannerism. The former is ordered, integrated, otherworldly, and grandiose; it leaves you feeling hungry for something flawed and of-the-flesh.

You Look Feeling Renaissance High

I have to tell you, I'm not like Demi Moore, where the tears trickle prettily down my cheeks. My whole face screws up and it's like, 'Oh please, get a room.'

Tears Face You Down Tell Room

I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America.

Dog War Society Think America Now

In 1976, divorce could still raise eyebrows, as could a woman's decision not to have children. Dyslexia wasn't as commonly recognized then, and thus not treated as it is today.

Stacey D'Erasmo

Today Children Decision Woman Raise

It really is possible to disagree with someone's policies without hating them. Grown-ups can do that.

Someone Possible Without Disagree

To me that's what Jobs was about. He said at the end of the movie, 'When you realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you, your life will change.' That, to me, is a message for right now and people figuring out what they're going to do with themselves.

Joshua Michael Stern

Life Change People Me World End

Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work.

Work Character Man People Me Actor

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Intelligence Civilization Own Weight

I don't keep a journal.

My family is very creative. My grandfather played the guitar in Cuba. My sisters, my mom and two aunts would do harmonies, so I would see them and think, 'I want the attention.'

Family Creative Mom Think Guitar

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