Joy Harjo Quotes

It took me 14 years to write 'Crazy Brave' because I kept changing the form and I also kept running away from the story. I said I don't really want to write about myself. But it's about writing about memory.

Joy Harjo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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All this size 0! A bit ridiculous. There's something creepy about fashion shows. The models look like they're going to be tortured. They do this strange pony walk; their heels are so high, they can hardly walk. Creepy!

Jerry Hall

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What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have gotten ghettoized in these sort of places... I'm thinking women in action, comic books, or like the Tony Soprano of women. We need some complex roles.

Melissa Rosenberg

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Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.

Stanley Kubrick

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I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!

Shirley Manson

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My wife keeps on telling me my worst fault is that I keep things to myself and appear relaxed. But I am really in a room in my own head and not hearing a thing anyone is saying.

Tom Hanks

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I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in the context of war.

Judith Butler

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I'm not a big fan of just doing weights. Anything more physical is infinitely better.

Jason Momoa

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I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with.

William Kempe

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Getting three gold medals is something I'll really cherish.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

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I am humbled and excited by new opportunities for me to support and share the amazing work NASA is doing to help us travel farther into the solar system and work with the next generation of science and technology leaders.

Scott Kelly

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You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.

Richard Pryor

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As soon as I ended up being incarcerated, I said, you know, this is not the life for me.

Mark Wahlberg

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