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Pearl Cleage Quotes

I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 7, 1948

Topics

People Up I Was Raised Surrounded

For one person, Haydn is most exciting. Or Bach is the most exciting. For another, it's Carter or Strauss. For me - and for any musician - all of the music is exciting. And if you don't approach it with excitement, we can't be musicians.

Music Me Musicians You Person Most

My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.

Strength Two Coming Up Last Ninth

You have to relax when you're shooting an arrow. You can't be tense. And that just helps, in your day-to-day life.

Life Relax You Arrow Shooting Just

There isn't really a whole lot to know about me.

Me Know Whole About Lot Really

When I met Elvis, we didn't really have a conversation. I was introduced by my uncle, and he sort of grunted my way. What stays with me is the whole scene. I had never seen a real mob scene before. I was really young and impressionable. Elvis really did look - he looked sort of not real, as if he were glowing.

Me Conversation Look Uncle Young

When I was five, I joined a club, 'Excelsior', the club of Kralingen, in the first division. I was always training. On a free afternoon, I did individual work with Aad Putters, my youth trainer. Not with the idea growing to be a star, but for fun.

Robin Van Persie

Work Training Fun Youth Free First

By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminished by old age and its attendant diseases that it was impossible to discern the remarkable artist, photographer and poet he once had been.

Age Time Old Age Man Child Husband

I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.

Music Death I Am Play Follower Up

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

War Poetry Go More Heroism Always

When I was a young boy, during the aftermath of World War II, Germany was broken and in ruins. Many people were hungry, sick, and dying. I remember well the humanitarian shipments of food and clothing that came from the Church in Salt Lake City.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Food Broken War People City World

I've never played in Vegas. I've only been to the airport, but even the airport was exciting. Just flying in, looking out the window, you feel the pull of it, like it's some evil force pulling you in, like Mordor.

Window Evil Looking Flying Vegas

I love music so much, and I love musicians - I love singers. It's fun. That's what music's supposed to be. Fun.

Chris Stapleton

Love Music Fun Musicians Singers

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