Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes

To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.

Leslie Marmon Silko

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 5, 1948

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I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.

John Cassavetes

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When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

Max Beerbohm

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'Hard Knocks' seems to have done for the self-serious NFL what the witch did for Rapunzel: persuaded it, somehow, to let its hair down.

Steve Rushin

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This industry is too bonkers to understand. Every single part is completely different.

Rupert Friend

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If Romney would go ideological in explaining Obama, it would help. We gotta stop the, 'He's a nice guy' stuff. Nice guys don't do what Obama is doing. Nice guys don't say and do and act the way Obama is saying, doing, and acting.

Rush Limbaugh

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No matter what - rehearsed, under-rehearsed, over-rehearsed, doubts about rehearsing - the first gig is always the first gig, and you put on your little praying hat, batten down the hatch, and do what you do.

Mick Fleetwood

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I casually advise a few young companies, and I'm always surprised when I see them overthinking simple problems, adding too much structure too early, and trying to get formal too soon. Start-ups should embrace their scrappiness, not rush to toss it aside.

Jason Fried

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A red tie is contrary to the dignity of the tie and of male dress in general.

Joseph Abboud

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When I do my own makeup, I keep things pretty simple.

Jordana Brewster

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I realized I was the one doing all the training, earning the money, and my parents were living off of me.

Dominique Moceanu

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People who have never done theatre before, and have only worked in front of a camera, would find it very difficult, I think, to know how to command a stage and work with the logistics of being on stage. They're very different. The theatre is quite tricky, actually.

David Wenham

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Ultimately, for our family, the opportunity to spend increased time together, balanced with a return to academia, was one we could not pass up.

Chris Gibson

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