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Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes

To reasoned people, almost everything is understandable, but evil is forever incomprehensible.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: January 27, 1945

Topics

People Evil Everything Forever

A black man - I say a black man, we got no corner on the market, but every day in some form or fashion you got to prove you're a man. But you want to keep the life-and-death situations down. I can get beat. But there's getting beat and there's getting stomped.

Day Man Fashion Black You Down

Really, ambition has gone. I look for things that tickle my fancy. You begin to see the end of life on the horizon. You think, 'It's not going on forever, this.' Let's make the most of what time I have left.

Life Time Ambition Think End Look

I went to school in California, at Stanford when I was seventeen, and I lived in San Francisco until I was twenty-three, and then I lived in Hungary for, like, a summer, and then I went to Iowa for three years. At Iowa, I actually did the fiction program, not poetry. I was a fiction writer for a long time before I was 'out' as a poet.

Time School Poetry Long Summer Out

If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk up, the main character, and look at this big building with a flag on it with Japanese writing on it, everyone in Japan would know what that is.

Character Walk Writing Building Look

I was probably a bit of a mimic when I was a kid, and I used to imitate people.

People Kid Used Imitate Mimic Bit

Record companies worrying more about market share than developing artists - I hear there was a time when if your first record didn't sell 8m copies, you were still given a chance to grow as a songwriter.

Time Chance Grow You More First

I think there's no question that Michael Jackson was the foremost entertainer of his generation; perhaps of all time, arguably, taking the skills of a Sammy Davis, Jr., bringing together the street dance of African American urban culture, joining them to the politics of dance, of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly on that sphere alone.

Michael Eric Dyson

Alone Time Culture Politics Dance

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Humor Man Dignity Him Affirmation

I feel really lucky. There wasn't a doubt in my mind when Phil asked me to marry him.

Lizzie Armitstead

Mind Me Feel Doubt Lucky Him

We shoot with three cameras, try to shoot both sides of coverage if possible. That allows the actors to overlap and to find moments that feel more authentic and real than what you sometimes would normally get in a scripted drama that's shot more classically. And that's something in 'Parenthood' that has evolved.

Feel Moments You Find Drama Three

Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.

People Breakfast Talking You Kind

As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.

Political Meet Europe Leaders Union

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